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Xiangguo Qiu, who’s also under investigation by the RCMP, is listed as an inventor on two patents filed by official agencies in China in recent years.
Fired Winnipeg lab scientist listed as co-inventor on two Chinese government patents
Qiu was a long-time federal civil servant when the patents were registered in 2017 and 2019 for innovations related to the Ebola and Marburg viruses, key focuses of her work at Winnipeg ’s National Microbiology Laboratory.
Qiu’s ouster from the lab remains cloaked in mystery and has been the subject of ongoing debate in Parliament, as opposition parties try, largely in vain, to obtain information on why she and husband Keding Cheng — another scientist at the lab — were let go.
Qiu had extensive dealings with China and Chinese scientists in recent years, including repeated trips to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a “level-four” disease lab like Winnipeg’s.
One of the patents listing her as a co-inventor — with five other people — was filed with the Chinese National Intellectual Property Administration by the country’s National Institutes for Food and Drug Control. It describes an “inhibitor for Ebola virus.” Qiu won fame in Canada for helping develop a treatment for Ebola, though the Chinese drug seems different.
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The other patent that includes Qiu and six collaborators as inventors was registered by the Inspection and Quarantine Technology Center of Fujian province. It’s for a “detection method,” or test, for Marburg, a hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola.
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Adding another wrinkle to the saga, Qiu was involved in a shipment of samples of Ebola and another lethal virus to the Wuhan lab in 2019, though the agency says that episode was unconnected to her removal.
The Globe and Mail reported recently that Qiu was barred from the lab after she and Cheng failed to pass screening by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, but that has not been confirmed by the government. The Globe also detailed her work with Chinese scientists, including a military researcher who worked for a time at the Winnipeg lab.