---
type: Person
title: Vincent Munster
description: "Virologist, NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratories"
tags:
  - person
  - rml
organization: rml
document_count: 11
first_seen: "2011-09-16T15:36:00"
last_seen: "2024-04-25T13:27:24"
aliases:
  - Munster
  - Vincent Munster
sources:
  - { id: monkeypox_release, resource: /sources/monkeypox-release.md, title: NIH Monkeypox Smuggling Release, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-06-05 }
generated: { by: randpaul-corpus-pipeline/1.0, at: "2026-08-01T12:42:27Z" }
status: stable
---

Virologist, NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratories

# Activity

- **Documents:** 11 (sent/authored 4, received 7)
- **Active:** 2011-09-16 to 2024-04-25
- **Organization:** [rml](/organizations/rml.md)
- **Appears as:** `Munster`, `Vincent Munster`

# Correspondents

| Person | Messages | First | Last |
|---|---:|---|---|
| [Robert Fischer](/people/robert-fischer.md) | 3 | 2022-07-15 | 2022-07-18 |
| Sara LaTrielle | 2 | 2022-08-09 | 2022-08-09 |
| Yinda Kwe Claude | 2 | 2024-04-22 | 2024-04-25 |
| Alan | 1 | 2021-12-02 | 2021-12-02 |
| Degrace | 1 | 2021-12-02 | 2021-12-02 |
| Diane | 1 | 2021-12-02 | 2021-12-02 |
| Embry | 1 | 2021-12-02 | 2021-12-02 |
| Gray | 1 | 2021-12-02 | 2021-12-02 |
| Handley | 1 | 2021-12-02 | 2021-12-02 |
| Jon Epstein | 1 | 2011-09-16 | 2011-09-16 |
| Kay Menk | 1 | 2021-12-02 | 2021-12-02 |
| Marciela | 1 | 2021-12-02 | 2021-12-02 |
| Post | 1 | 2021-12-02 | 2021-12-02 |
| Raina K. Plowright | 1 | 2022-08-09 | 2022-08-09 |
| Ryan Ford Relich | 1 | 2022-07-15 | 2022-07-15 |

# Topics

* [Monkeypox sample smuggling case](/topics/monkeypox-smuggling.md) - 7 documents
* [EcoHealth Alliance funding and grants](/topics/ecohealth-funding.md) - 2 documents
* [Intelligence community assessments](/topics/intelligence-community.md) - 2 documents
* [Biosafety and biosecurity](/topics/biosafety.md) - 1 documents
* [Furin cleavage site and molecular features](/topics/molecular-features.md) - 1 documents
* [Public comments and policy process](/topics/public-comments-policy.md) - 1 documents

# Statement timeline

What this person is recorded saying, in date order, quoted verbatim with page citations.

* **2021-12-02** ([monkeypox_smuggling](/topics/monkeypox-smuggling.md), instructs): "It is absolutely critical that NIH and US researchers get access to the omicron variant ASAP Let me know if there are any further questions, Cheers, Vincent Munster, PhD Chief Virus Ecology Section Rocky Mountain Laboratories NIAID/NIH 1.Z0V>" [^monkeypox_release]
* **2022-08-09** ([monkeypox_smuggling](/topics/monkeypox-smuggling.md), asserts): "Will do, numbnuts lost the first shipment Vincent Munster, PhD Chief Virus Ecology Section Rocky Mountain Laboratories NIAID/NIH" [^monkeypox_release]

# Sources

[^monkeypox_release]: [monkeypox_release](/sources/monkeypox-release.md)