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I mean, from my perspective, and just looking at it from a scientific perspective, he made major contributions into identifying emerging infectious disease hotspots around the world. He worked extensively with China on SARS coronavirus in 2003. He's sort of a microbial ecologist, very different field than I do. But we would have mutual interests to talk about emerging viruses.
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And did he have people on the ground over in Wuhan in early 2020?
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So I was not part of his RO1 grant that went from like 2014 to 2019. So on that grant, as you know, part of that money went to the Wuhan Institute of DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com Virology. So I guess you could say he had a collaborative group in China, and I would imagine that he had people moving back and forth between the two, the U.S. and China.
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To your knowledge, he didn't an EcoHealth employee or anything like that?
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2026-04-10 09:00
Ralph S. Baric
You'd have to ask him those questions. I wouldn't know.
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Okay. And then what about Ian Lipkin?
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Yeah, another good friend from Columbia University. But what's the question?
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So my understanding is that he also worked out of the Wuhan CDC at times.
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Ian Lipkin, you'd have to look at his CV, but I believe he received a medal from China for his efforts in the original 2003 SARS coronavirus outbreak, helping them bring it under control. So he is also, not really a viral ecologist. He really does virus discovery, very interested in post-responses to viral infections. He's a global leader in really, I guess, the last 15 years, developing new technologies for rapid detection of unknown pathogens in the environment.