Emails Show NIH Officials Repeatedly Warned EcoHealth About Gain-Of-Function Research Violations

According to previously released emails, representatives from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) frequently cautioned the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance that their research breached a "funding pause" on gain-of-function (GOF) research imposed by the American government.

NIH official Carine Normil got an email from EcoHealth Alliance chief of staff Alexa Chmura in May 2016 saying, "We received a warning that one of the publications [redacted] listed from the past year is non-compliant....

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