Charles Lieber pleads not guilty to charges

Abstract

Charles M. Lieber, an expert in nanoscience and former chair of Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, pleaded not guilty to charges that he lied to federal authorities and did not declare foreign income or a foreign bank account to the IRS on his federal tax filing, as US law requires. Lieber entered his plea in a Boston federal court hearing held by videoconference on July 30. Lieber, who is on leave from Harvard, was on Jan. 28. Federal authorities on July 28. Since 2008, Lieber’s lab at Harvard has received grants totaling more than $15 million from the US National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Defense, . As a provision of those grants, Lieber was required to disclose his affiliations and collaborations with foreign institutions. The US government alleges that Lieber became a “Strategic Scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in 2011 and