Rebecca Keiser is the NSF's first appointed Chief of Research Security Strategy and Policy, a position designed to deal with foreign interference in research. (NG Images/Alamy)
Exclusive: NSF’s foreign-influence findings
The US National Science Foundation has suspended or terminated grants, blacklisted scientists from future grants and taken other actions against some 20 researchers who failed to disclose foreign ties. Almost all had ties with China, although most of the scientists were not ethnically Chinese. Other cases, deemed potentially criminal, were turned over to the FBI. The number falls far short of the 189 similar cases recently reported by the US National Institutes of Health, possibly because of the NSF’s smaller budget and the fact that much of the NSF-funded research is less likely to be commercializable and thus is seen as less susceptible to intellectual-property theft. Still more cases are likely to emerge. “We’re only starting to understand these issues,” says NSF chief of research security strategy and policy Rebecca Keiser.
Nature | 5 min read
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