--- type: Person title: Robert F. Garry description: "Professor, Tulane University" tags: - person - tulane organization: tulane document_count: 11734 first_seen: "2020-03-06T16:22:00" last_seen: "2023-06-28T20:44:44" aliases: - Bob Garry - Garry - Robert F. Garry - Robert Garry sources: - { id: fauci_intel, resource: /sources/fauci-intel.md, title: Fauci Intelligence Community Release, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-06-11 } - { id: slack_pm, resource: /sources/slack-pm.md, title: Slack / Private Message Drop, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } generated: { by: randpaul-corpus-pipeline/1.0, at: "2026-08-01T12:42:27Z" } status: stable --- Professor, Tulane University # Activity - **Documents:** 11734 (sent/authored 3293, received 8441) - **Active:** 2020-03-06 to 2023-06-28 - **Organization:** [tulane](/organizations/tulane.md) - **Appears as:** `Bob Garry`, `Garry`, `Robert F. Garry`, `Robert Garry` # Correspondents | Person | Messages | First | Last | |---|---:|---|---| | [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) | 6849 | 2020-04-30 | 2023-06-28 | | [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) | 6278 | 2020-04-30 | 2022-06-02 | | [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) | 5191 | 2020-04-30 | 2022-06-02 | | Kristian G. Andersen M | 1 | 2020-03-06 | 2020-03-06 | | Uslackbot | 1 | 2021-05-14 | 2021-05-14 | # Topics * [Intelligence community assessments](/topics/intelligence-community.md) - 376 documents * [Natural origin / zoonotic spillover](/topics/natural-origin.md) - 374 documents * [Lab-leak / accidental release hypothesis](/topics/lab-leak-origin.md) - 273 documents * [Furin cleavage site and molecular features](/topics/molecular-features.md) - 269 documents * [Wuhan Institute of Virology collaboration](/topics/wiv-collaboration.md) - 252 documents * [Vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md) - 236 documents * [Proximal Origin paper](/topics/proximal-origin.md) - 113 documents * [FOIA, records and transparency](/topics/foia-transparency.md) - 67 documents * [China relations and data access](/topics/china-relations.md) - 61 documents * [Media strategy and public messaging](/topics/media-messaging.md) - 54 documents # Statement timeline What this person is recorded saying, in date order, quoted verbatim with page citations. * **2020-05-02** ([proximal_origin](/topics/proximal-origin.md), asserts): "oppps...."One *Nature Medicine paper* further indicated that the pandemic virus shows no signs of having been engineered by scientists, another contention of conspiracy theorists." [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-05** ([lab_leak_origin](/topics/lab-leak-origin.md), denies): "And Kristian welcome to this rather exclusive "club." Hooper write; "But for Kristian Andersen to claim that the workby his colleagues and himself "rules out" the lab origin theory, and for Josie Golding to claim that it "end[s] any speculation" along such…" [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-05** ([lab_leak_origin](/topics/lab-leak-origin.md), asserts): "I believe that as itstands at present, the lab origin hypothesis is at least as plausible a hypothesis as that of origin from Wuhanbushmeat."" [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-12** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "You are a scientist and not a politician but you looked like a very dull politician who has no idea what he was talking about." [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-12** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "You have failed as a politician and you have tried to politicize this important and vital issue but you have failed successfully as a scientist as well. *Blame China for not telling the world everything, ganging with the WHO, and hoarding PPEs instead of…" [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-13** ([natural_origin](/topics/natural-origin.md), asserts): ""My first look at the virus suggested that the pattern of distribution of sequence variation across the genome looked natural, but that may too broad brush." ProfBill has a new long read on Virological on this topic - synonymous mutations look very normal…" [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-14** ([testing_surveillance](/topics/testing-surveillance.md), asserts): "@Eddie Holmes The remarkable thing about this little rant is that he seems to be implying that he was running the two PCR tests POTUS mentions as well as the BioFire HIMSELF." [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-14** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "And with that - Kristian will very much appreciate the fact for my own mental health - I'm getting back to work onother things." [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-16** ([molecular_features](/topics/molecular-features.md), asserts): ""_However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that *any* type of laboratory-based scenario isplausible."_" [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-22** ([china_relations](/topics/china-relations.md), asserts): "I'm the BBC Correspondent based in Beijing... and have, of course, been covering the outbreakof sars-covid-2 here in China since early this year." [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-22** ([proximal_origin](/topics/proximal-origin.md), asserts): "Ihave a few questions on which I would value your input related to the recent paper that you co-authored in Nature Medicine.In the first instance I was hoping for a brief background chat over the phone, but alternatively, if easier we couldconverse over email." [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-22** ([molecular_features](/topics/molecular-features.md), asserts): "It's obvious, but the only bits I'm really interested in are the RBD and the cleavage site of the progenitor of SARS-CoV-2." [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-24** ([china_relations](/topics/china-relations.md), questions): ""CGTN is a propaganda organ for the Chinese government" Lot of that going around these days - I wonder if the 9 foot green spacewomen would be able to discern the difference with Fox Spews or any other Murdoch related garbage." [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-25** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "The 12base pair insertion is - as ProfBill pointed out - out of frame." [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-28** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "Then there are the Mikovitses of the world who occupy their own special place." [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-01** ([npi_masks](/topics/npi-masks.md), asserts): "What has happened is that case numbers have dropped in Italy, no doubt because of "some of the most rigidlockdown restrictions introduced anywhere on the continent.""The swabs that were performed over the last 10 days showed a viral load in quantitative…" [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-01** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "Here's one example:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30232-2/fulltext"The mean viral load of severe cases was around 60 times higher than that of mild cases, suggesting that higher viral loads might be associated with severe…" [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-04** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), questions): "That would help toexplain the otherwise puzzling extreme infectivity of Covid-19 and hence also help to explain the social epidemiologyof its spread." *Love, art thou sweet? then bitter death must be: Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me." [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-05** ([molecular_features](/topics/molecular-features.md), asserts): "Just a reminder that HKU1 and OC43 spikes also have big predicted mucin-like domains in "place" of the ACE-2 RBD." [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-06** ([molecular_features](/topics/molecular-features.md), asserts): "Sorry - messed up the links above - the elife paper does a considerable amt of arm waving over an 8 amino acid homology -the furin site - but "interesting" that the furin site in both SARS-CoV-2 and ENaC- has predicted O-linked glycans PLUS ENaC- has…" [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-06** ([molecular_features](/topics/molecular-features.md), questions): ""RTT plot for Ebola is super interesting" Agree - how do the RBDs align on the different branches?" [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-08** ([awards_honoraria](/topics/awards-honoraria.md), asserts): "She has won two PulitzerPrizes, for her series "The DNA Age", and as part of a team for the series "How Race Is Lived inAmerica." @amy_harmon • Facebook" [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-08** ([npi_masks](/topics/npi-masks.md), asserts): "Laurie Garrett was just on the teevee and said that if social distancing etc had not been implemented a half a billion people would be dead now or dead shortly from now." [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-09** ([ecohealth_funding](/topics/ecohealth-funding.md), asserts): ""Disease ecologist Peter Daszak, president of the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance in Manhattan, said the Harvard study"is absolutely fascinating."" [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-09** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "Yes, curefinder is especially lame when you haven't - you know - like actually found anycures." [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-10** ([proximal_origin](/topics/proximal-origin.md), questions): "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/09/conspiracies-covid-19-lab-false-pandemic?CMP=share_bt n_tw "Writing in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Medicine, researchers strongly refuted the idea that the code had been purposefully manipulated." [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-10** ([proximal_origin](/topics/proximal-origin.md), reports): "Whereas the article in Nature Medicine_ _was written by senior virologists, one author, John Fredrik Moxnes, the chief scientific adviser to the Norwegian military, has already withdrawn his name from the paper cited by Dearlove - while scientists from the…" [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-11** ([molecular_features](/topics/molecular-features.md), asserts): ""exactly where they inserted it experimentally in SARS" Sure - but that site with the single R is a required cleavage site - if you're going to convert to a furin site then adding RRA at that exact position is the only thing that makes sense - or even RRAR…" [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-11** ([molecular_features](/topics/molecular-features.md), asserts): "HKU1 actually does have an optimal furin site - some strains have a insert or deletion of SSS - yes some of these Shave predicted O-glycans [shared file(s): HKU-1 Spike.pdf]" [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-12** ([natural_origin](/topics/natural-origin.md), questions): "The CoVs from the frothy pangolins are pretty diverse - multiple introductions, long time evolving or both?" [^slack_pm] # Sources [^fauci_intel]: [fauci_intel](/sources/fauci-intel.md) [^slack_pm]: [slack_pm](/sources/slack-pm.md)