A U.S. district court sentenced a former Ohio State University medical researcher to prison for concealing his connections to a Chinese spy program from federal authorities.

Song Guo Zheng, a professor of internal medicine who led research teams at both Ohio State and Pennsylvania State University, hid his involvement in the Chinese Communist Party's Thousand Talents Program, which China uses to steal research from Western countries, on applications to the National Institutes of Health. Zheng also concealed his collaboration with a major Chinese research university.