Suicide lawsuit against China-born scientist Jane Wu’s US university to proceed

A US judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit accusing Northwestern University of mistreating Chinese-American neuroscientist Jane Wu before her suicide, allowing the case to move ahead. The ruling on Tuesday rejected the university’s request for dismissal and means one of the most consequential cases related to the now-defunct “China Initiative” will proceed into a more substantive phase, with the next hearing set for mid-May. Wu’s family alleges the former Dr Charles L. Mix research profess...

By Ling Xin