A Japanese woman and Chinese man accused of stealing genetic information from a Harvard Medical School lab where they both worked as researchers are married, an attorney told Kyodo News on Tuesday.
Jeffrey Denner, a lawyer representing 30-year-old Zhu Jiangyu, confirmed his client is married to 32-year-old Kayoko Kinbara.
The couple met at the lab in question, where they both worked on the development of drugs to control organ rejection and studied genes that regulate enzymes in the heart, brain and immune systems.
The lab is in the school's cell biology department.