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Senators want to know if HHS money went to Chinese genomics firms
Two Republican senators are asking whether the Department of Health and Human Services might have compromised national security by indirectly doing business with genomics companies tied to China, the latest escalation in Washington’s efforts to limit overseas access to American intellectual property.
In a letter to the HHS inspector general, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) name-checked WuXi Nextcode and BGI, two Chinese-founded genomics companies that have relationships with U.S. companies that have received payments from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Grassley and Rubio want to know whether any of those funds went to WuXi and BGI, which they call “entities connected to the Chinese government,” and whether the two firms have access to Americans’ genomic data.
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