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...couple allegedly shipped more than 20 boxes of sensitive medical materials to Texas, where they were recovered in June, 2000. The stolen materials were crucial to research involving calcineurin, an enzyme that causes the immune system to reject transplanted organs. Immediately before leaving Harvard, Zhu and Kimbara had found genes that block calcineurin—a lucrative discovery for drug development...
According to the indictment, Zhu and Kimbara had signed Participation Agreements agreeing that all of their discoveries and materials belonged to Harvard. After shipping the materials to Texas without authorization, they denied they took anything from the lab and allegedly concealed data. The indictment also alleges that they removed from the lab materials concerning the work of other scientists...
Immediately after the indictment, Zhu and Kimbara’s lawyers released a statement in which they were quick to point out that the government had dropped the most serious charges—conspiracy and theft of trade secrets—on the grounds that they were untruthful. If the couple had been convicted of these charges, they would probably have received an additional 15 years imprisonment and $500,000 in fines...
...disappointed that the government has elected to continue its prosecution of our clients, even on the limited charge that remains,” Krupp said in his statement. “Drs. Zhu and Kimbara are confident that once the first facts are heard, it will be clear that they have not done anything wrong and no crime was committed...
...defense indicated its central argument will be that Zhu and Kimbara did nothing out of the ordinary...