{"id":329308,"date":"2025-12-04T04:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329308\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T04:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:15:13","slug":"us-university-seeks-to-dismiss-lawsuit-by-family-of-china-born-scientist-jane-wu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329308\/","title":{"rendered":"US university seeks to dismiss lawsuit by family of China-born scientist Jane Wu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legal battle over the death of Chinese-American neuroscientist <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3276370\/china-born-neuroscientist-jane-wu-lost-her-us-lab-then-she-lost-her-life?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jane Wu<\/a> officially began in a Chicago courtroom this week \u2013 a case that has shaken the research community and focused intense scrutiny on Northwestern University\u2019s conduct.A civil lawsuit filed by Wu\u2019s family in June centres on how the university handled one of its most accomplished professors during the controversial \u201c<a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3259722\/fbi-did-not-intend-negative-impact-prosecuting-chinese-scientists-and-researchers-ties-beijing?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">China Initiative<\/a>\u201d, alleging her suicide in July 2024 was a direct result of the school\u2019s treatment amid the investigations.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Northwestern\u2019s lawyers on Monday informed Cook County Judge Jonathan Green that the university had already moved to dismiss the case.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Relatives have accused Northwestern of marginalising the Feinberg School of Medicine molecular biologist \u2013 stripping her of funding, shutting down her lab, and ultimately having her forcibly removed from her office and taken to a psychiatric unit. They argued the actions were discriminatory and contributed to her death.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jane Wu with her children in Nashville. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c265c77f-0a56-43a9-835f-5a848878c28e_6ab366ca.jpg\" title=\"Jane Wu with her children in Nashville. Photo: Handout\"\/>Jane Wu with her children in Nashville. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The school previously told NBC News that it \u201cvehemently denies\u201d the allegations. On Monday, Green asked the university to submit a more concise version of its motion within two weeks. A full hearing is scheduled for February.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wu was the Dr Charles L. Mix Research Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Northwestern University before taking her own life at age 60. Born in Hefei, Anhui province, she went to the United States in the 1980s to pursue a PhD in cancer biology at Stanford University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The legal battle over the death of Chinese-American neuroscientist Jane Wu officially began in a Chicago courtroom this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[12343,110901,144,167299,16488,167302,72604,5425,167297,167301,18501,61226,167298,37177,167300,20819,15191,1728,79,56021,167303],"class_list":["post-329308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-als","tag-anhui-province","tag-china","tag-china-initiative","tag-cook-county","tag-feinberg-school-of-medicine","tag-hefei","tag-hong-kong","tag-jane-wu","tag-jonathan-green","tag-national-institutes-of-health","tag-nbc-news","tag-neuroscientist","tag-nih","tag-northwestern-scholar-portal","tag-northwestern-university","tag-parkinsons","tag-research","tag-science","tag-stanford-university","tag-us-department-of-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}