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The Wuhan experimentation also occurred despite an earlier mandate under President Barack Obama pausing all gain-of-function research by the US government due to biosafety and biosecurity concerns.
Former DNI John Ratcliffe told Congress that Fauci’s testimony under oath on gain-of-function research did not comport with the intelligence available at the time.
Republicans also have accused Fauci of lying to Congress when he denied in May 2022 that his agency funded “gain of function” research – the practicing of enhancing a virus in a lab to study ...
Gain-of-function research (GoF research or GoFR) is medical research that genetically alters an organism in a way that may enhance the biological functions of gene products. This may include an altered pathogenesis , transmissibility , or host range , i.e., the types of hosts that a microorganism can infect.
Robert Ray Redfield Jr. [1] [2] was born on July 10, 1951. His parents, Robert Ray Redfield (1923–1956, from Ogden) and Betty, née Gasvoda, [1] were both scientists at the National Institutes of Health, [3] where his father was a surgeon and cellular physiologist at the National Heart Institute; [1] Redfield's career in medical research was influenced by this background. [3]
On 19 December 2017, Collins and the NIH lifted the Obama moratorium on gain of function research because it was deemed to be "important in helping us identify, understand, and develop strategies and effective countermeasures against rapidly evolving pathogens that pose a threat to public health."
Last May, after repeated denials by Fauci about gain-of-function research, Tabak finally admitted to lawmakers that EcoHealth-funded experiments in Wuhan were just that.
Ebright has accused NIAID director Anthony Fauci, NIH director Francis Collins and deputy director Lawrence Tabak of "lying to the public", about their past and continuing denials of NIH funding having been utilized for gain-of-function research experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. [33] [34]