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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.53 · baric_ti:utt:00414

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Date
2026-04-10 09:00 (day precision)
Type
transcript segment · interview
recipient
Ralph S. Baric, Harry Kazenoff, David T. Lambeth III, William Henderson, Clark Ervin, Jake Greenberg
speaker
Christina Salazar
Is there a process for --

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  1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    So it's indefinitely paused.
  2. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    It is in purgatory, yes.
  3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Okay. And what is the work, specifically?
  4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    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.
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar
    Is there a process for --
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Well, you said that you didn't know how the P3 -- or I can't remember -- the process worked prior, when it was an NIH decision, and you just sent them what you believed, and then they would make the ultimate decision.

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