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1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
   That's correct.
2. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
   So it's indefinitely paused.
3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
   It is in purgatory, yes.
4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
   Okay. And what is the work, specifically?
5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric
   Most of the work was on mouse hepatitis virus. One of the aims included some merbecoviruses, specifically two merbecoviruses called MERS-422 and MjHKU4. And there's some mouse data in there that they want to have reviewed.
6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
   Is there a process for --
7. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
   Is there a process? I have no idea. All I know is that the Trump administration has formed a committee to come up with final policy recommendations for what is gain-of-function and what's not. And so in the grant, because there was no structure except the existing 2016 structure, we said depending on however those reviews work, we will work within the context of the new structure, because we have no idea of what they're going to say is GOF or not.
8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
   Which was kind of what happened before, right, that it was an NIH decision, or was there more interaction previously? DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com
9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
   You need to put that sentence in context. I'm not sure what you're referring to.

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