Fri Jul 15, 2022 – 7:41 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials repeatedly warned the non-profit EcoHealth Alliance that their research violated a U.S. government “funding pause” on gain-of-function (GOF) research, recently published emails show.
“We received a warning that one of the publications [redacted] listed from the past year is non-compliant,” Alexa Chmura, EcoHealth Alliance’s chief of staff, wrote in an email to NIH official Carine Normil as far back as May 2016, Judicial Watch reported. Chmura was referencing EcoHealth’s funding of the now highly controversial funding of bat-based virus GOF research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
GOF research seeks to make viruses more dangerous or transmissible in order to “enabl[e] assessment of the pandemic potential of emerging infectious agents,” according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Chmura’s email was reportedly a “separate reply” after National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) official Erik Stemmy had written to Normil, referring to EcoHealth Alliance’s research work, “They have proposed work for the next year of the award that may be subject to the gain-of-function funding pause.”
The emails additionally show the FBI had opened an inquiry
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