Two research scientists with connections to China escorted from Canada’s Level-4 virology lab

On July 5, 2019 two research scientists and and an unknown number of her students from China  were escorted out of the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg, Canada’s only Level-4 virology lab. [1, 2]

Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her biologist husband, Keding Cheng, were stripped of their security clearances and escorted from the National Microbiology Lab (NML) in July 2019 and fired in January 2020 for reasons a possible patent “policy breach.”  Xiangguo Qiu is listed as an inventor on two patents filed by official agencies in China in recent years.

“Qiu is a medical doctor from Tianjin, China, who came to Canada for graduate studies in 1996. She is still affiliated with the university there and has brought in many students over the years to help with her work.”