Category: National Institutes of Health

NIH Director’s Claims About Funding Risky Research in China Come Under Scrutiny

The head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) claimed in front of Congress on Feb. 8 that the United States has never funded a category of risky research in China, and that the work that was funded by America could not have led to the COVID-19 pandemic. Critics say both assertations are dubious…


NIH Regulations on Risky Research Too Secretive and Vague: Advisers

U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) regulations on research that increases one or more aspects of a pathogen need improvement, according to a group of advisers tasked with reviewing the rules. If experiments meet certain definitions, they are supposed to be reviewed before being funded by the U.S. government under an oversight system implemented in…


The Science Too Is Captured

Commentary The “nonprofit” called EcoHealth Alliance currently has 12 active grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling $34 million, if you can believe it. Recall that EcoHealth is the institution that Fauci chose as a conduit through which to fund the Wuhan Institute of Virology after gain-of-function research became verboten due to changes…


Fauci’s Peculiar Defense of EcoHealth Funding

Commentary Anthony Fauci is always very careful about whom he grants interviews. We know this from the trove of emails released so far. Preferred are friendly, deferential, adoring interviews. Out of the question are any from overly inquisitive or hostile interviewers or venues. But he cannot always perfectly control content. Every once in a while,…


EXCLUSIVE: US Pandemic Committee Hasn’t Worked During COVID-19 Pandemic

A committee formed to evaluate research projects involving pathogens that could cause pandemics has not worked during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Epoch Times has learned. The Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO) Review Committee was formed in 2017 under a new framework aimed at strengthening oversight of potentially risky projects that were up for…


Fauci Announces He’s Stepping Down as NIAID Director, Medical Adviser to Biden

Dr. Anthony Fauci is stepping down from three government positions he holds, he announced on Aug. 22. Fauci is resigning as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden. The moves will take effect in December, Fauci said….


US National Institutes of Health Halting Money From Grant From Lab in Wuhan, China

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has ended a subgrant to the laboratory in China located where the first COVID-19 cases were identified in 2019. U.S.-based EcoHealth Alliance was granted $3.7 million, starting in 2014, to study bat-related coronaviruses. It conveyed some of the money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), located in China….


US National Institutes of Health Ending Subaward for Lab in Wuhan, China

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has ended a subgrant to the laboratory in China located where the first COVID-19 cases were identified in 2019. U.S.-based EcoHealth Alliance was granted $3.7 million, starting in 2014, to study bat-related coronaviruses. It conveyed some of the money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), located in China….


National Institutes of Health Failed to Make Sure Clinical Trial Results Were Reported: Watchdog

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) violated policy that requires the agency to make sure results from trials it funds are published, and did not impose consequences on parties that broke federal law governing the reporting, a watchdog has found. Out of 72 NIH-funded studies in 2019 and 2020, half of which were conducted by…


Experts Call on Congress to Quickly Implement New Gain of Function Oversight System After NIH ‘Failure’

Experts on Aug. 3 urged Congress to implement a new oversight system over risky research conducted in or funded by the United States, asserting the present system is ill-equipped to identify problematic experiments. Two Department of Health and Human Services agencies, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are currently…