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DRAFT, PRE-DECISIONAL are reviewed by the RML Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) prior to studs initiation to ensure all procedures are conducted safely and in accordance with guidelines and regulations. Additionally. NIH intramural policies stipulate that Aany research that has the-p Le be dered Dual Use Research of einvolves Path ef Pandemic Potential with Risk Group 3 and 4 pathogens must be reviewed by the NIH Dual Use Research of Concern Institutional Review Entity (DURC-IRE) to ensure appropriate risk mitigation procedures are in place. FOX News Program Allegations 1. There is new evidence that Dr. Fauci helped deliver a coronavirus strain to the U.S. a year before the pandemic. Facts of expertise, Following any appropriate biosafety and regulatory approvals as relevant for the research, the scientists conduct the research and report their discoveries in the sei ic literature. In the normal course of business, NIH and NIAID leadership do not have a role in the proposal or conduct of specific intramural research projects.- Dr. Fauci had no role in virus procurement. delivery. or research planning. The study in question did not use any virus shipped from Wuhan. The virus was created at UNC using the WIV-1 sequence publicly available on GenBank since 2013. 2. The U.S. government funded research and trained a researcher at Wuhan Institute of Virology. Facts: The study in question did not have any collaborations with WIV. Unrelated to the study in question. {Fhe NIH fas awarded funding to WIV for research as a subawardee on the EcoHealth Alliance R-01 from 2014 to 2020. Commented [SS([8]: To OLPA: as above, noting that the subaward under the EHA grant is not the only funding NIH has provided to WIV. Other components of NIH have had prior grants directly to WIV. Selgrade, Sara (NIH/NIAID) [E] 2023-11-29 08:09:00 After a thorough compliance review, NIH referred WIV to HHS for debarment. HHS debarred WIV from receiving U.S. funding for at least 10 years beginning in July 2023. 3. Documents uncovered by the WCW Project show that in 2018, NIH scientists went to the lab at Wuhan and brought the virus to a lab in the U.S. Facts: WIV-1 was isolated from bats and characterized by WIV scientists. The sequence to this virus has been publicly available since 2013. As outlined in a 2016 PNAS article, UNC researchers used the sequence to construct a virus using standard methods. The virus constructed in the U.S. was shared with RML researchers and used to study if WIV-