--- type: Topic title: Wuhan Institute of Virology collaboration description: "Work with, funding of, or data from the Wuhan Institute of Virology." tags: - topic - covid-19 document_count: 462 sources: - { id: baric_ti, resource: /sources/baric-ti.md, title: Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-23 } - { id: cbp_release, resource: /sources/cbp-release.md, title: CBP Release Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } - { id: daszak_cbp, resource: /sources/daszak-cbp.md, title: Daszak CBP Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-17 } - { id: diary_prequel, resource: /sources/diary-prequel.md, title: Diary Prequel Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-27 } - { id: fauci_diary, resource: /sources/fauci-diary.md, title: Tony's Diary Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-24 } - { id: fauci_intel, resource: /sources/fauci-intel.md, title: Fauci Intelligence Community Release, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-06-11 } - { id: gates, resource: /sources/gates.md, title: Gates Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-31 } - { id: letter_dni, resource: /sources/letter-dni.md, title: Chairman Paul Letter to DNI Gabbard, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2025-10-30 } - { id: nih_public_comments, resource: /sources/nih-public-comments.md, title: NIH Hid Public Comments Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-17 } - { id: reading_room, resource: /sources/reading-room.md, title: Reading Room Production, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } - { 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 --- Work with, funding of, or data from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Tagged on **462** documents. # Principal voices * [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) - 114 documents * [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) - 74 documents * [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) - 45 documents * [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) - 32 documents * [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) - 20 documents * [Ashley Sanders](/people/ashley-sanders.md) - 20 documents * [Clare Thomas](/people/clare-thomas.md) - 18 documents * [Ralph S. Baric](/people/ralph-s-baric.md) - 15 documents * [Christina Salazar](/people/christina-salazar.md) - 11 documents * [Erik Stemmy](/people/erik-stemmy.md) - 8 documents * [Sara Selgrade](/people/sara-selgrade.md) - 3 documents * [Sarah J. Imhoff](/people/sarah-j-imhoff.md) - 3 documents * Darpa Commandant OF THE Marine Corps Fellow - 1 documents * Fang Li - 1 documents * [Francis S. Collins](/people/francis-s-collins.md) - 1 documents # Statement timeline Attributed statements in chronological order. Each is quoted verbatim and cited to its page. * **2003-12-01** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Note -- she was one of 3 wives of the husband who died last year of AIDS." [^diary_prequel] * **2003-12-01** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Of the 7 children only 3 ver and the others were from the husbands other wives." [^diary_prequel] * **2003-12-01** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "She had just lost her 1 year old baby to AIDS and 2 of the other children of other wives were infected with HIV." [^diary_prequel] * **2012-06-12** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "June 12, 2012 - Had dinner over my house with the 3 week-day bachelors (i.e. their wives live and work in different cities): Harold Varmus (Connie in NYC); Gary Nabel (Betsy in Boston); and Eric Goosby (Nancy in San Francisco)." [^diary_prequel] * **2013-03-26** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "The tradition is that I cook pasta and either sausage or shrimp with great wines for the people (Harold, Eric, Gary) who are living in different cities from their wives." [^diary_prequel] * **2018-04-23** — Fang Li (asserts): "45% Subject: Re: NRM review and Ab transportaion Dear Zhengli, Yes, I am working on the review and should be able to send you a draft in 2 or 3 days." [^cbp_release] * **2020-05-06** — [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) (asserts): "The Telegraph claim that the WIV deleted files etc." [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-13** — [Ashley Sanders](/people/ashley-sanders.md) (asserts): "From a review of their experimental details, it looks as if they were generating recombinant DNA of the viruses using WIV1 as the backbone but I could not determine if they were using Seemless Cloning techniques." [^reading_room] * **2020-05-13** — [Ashley Sanders](/people/ashley-sanders.md) (asserts): "On page 119 of AI110964-01 under "C3d) Humanized mouse in vivo infection experiments" it states that humanized mouse in vivo experiments in humanized mice was occurring at the Wuhan Institute of Virology." [^reading_room] * **2020-05-21** — [Erik Stemmy](/people/erik-stemmy.md) (asserts): "From a review of their experimental details, it looks as if they were generating recombinant DNA of the viruses using WIV1 as the backbone but I could not determine if they were for investigators in this field are to create cDNA I know UNC-Chapel Hill you…" [^reading_room] * **2020-05-21** — [Erik Stemmy](/people/erik-stemmy.md) (asserts): "This award did not support work to manipulate CoV genomes or create chimeric viruses at Wuhan Institute of Virology; such work was performed at UNC-CH." [^reading_room] * **2020-05-21** — [Erik Stemmy](/people/erik-stemmy.md) (asserts): "On page 119 of AI110964-01 under "C3d) Humanized mouse in vivo infection experiments" it states that humanized mouse in vivo experiments in humanized mice was occurring at the Wuhan Institute of Virology." [^reading_room] * **2020-05-21** — [Erik Stemmy](/people/erik-stemmy.md) (asserts): "The figure you reference (Fig 35) shows weight loss and lung viral titers of chimeric viruses with bat CoV (wild type WIV-1, SHC014, WIV16, and 4231) spike proteins expressed on the WIV-1 backbone." [^reading_room] * **2020-05-22** — [Ashley Sanders](/people/ashley-sanders.md) (asserts): "From a review of their experimental details, it looks as if they were generating recombinant DNA of the viruses using WIV1 as the backbone but I could not determine if they were using Seemless Cloning techniques." [^reading_room] * **2020-05-22** — [Ashley Sanders](/people/ashley-sanders.md) (asserts): "This award did not support work to manipulate CoV genomes or create chimeric viruses at Wuhan Institute of Virology; such work was performed at UNC-CH." [^reading_room] * **2020-05-22** — [Ashley Sanders](/people/ashley-sanders.md) (asserts): "On page 119 of AI110964-01 under "C3d) Humanized mouse in vivo infection experiments" it states that humanized mouse in vivo experiments in humanized mice was occurring at the Wuhan Institute of Virology." [^reading_room] * **2020-05-22** — [Ashley Sanders](/people/ashley-sanders.md) (asserts): "The figure you reference (Fig 35) shows weight loss and lung viral titers of chimeric viruses with bat CoV (wild type WIV-1, SHC014, WIV16, and 4231) spike proteins expressed on the WIV-1 backbone." [^reading_room] * **2020-05-25** — [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) (asserts): "If you use a map of Wuhan and overlay the first four hospitals that saw cases with a map of the Metro system, you see that the hospitals straddle Line 2, which runs approximately east to west, carries 1,000,000 people a day, and isthe Metro line with stops…" [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-11** — [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) (asserts): "Nothing has changed in terms of prior risk of lab accident, but the issue is that we're dealing with the fact that WIV has been doing culturing of bat CoVs for over a decade exactly to understand what it takes for these viruses toemerge in humans (in BSL-2)." [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-11** — [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) (asserts): "We describe this in the paper and say that this work is performed "all of the world", but that isn't true - it has exclusively been going on at WIV." [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-11** — [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) (asserts): "A lot of the GOF work on SARS-like CoVs is also from WIV, although there are also other labs that have been doing that (e.g., Baric)." [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-11** — [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) (asserts): "But that work isn't exclusively done at the WIV because as you say yourself the Baric lab are doing it." [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-11** — [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) (asserts): "> But that work isn't exclusively done at the WIV because as you say yourself the Baric lab are doing it No, that work _is_ exclusively at WIV AFAIK." [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-13** — [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) (asserts): ""We have two choices: just ignore it or make a group response...it's up to the WIV to deal with this, not us." I agreewe should ignore this BBC effort and whomever they've co-opted for their show." [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-13** — [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) (asserts): "There is a third way - a commission - WHO or other - to look into the proximal origins - would give WIV a chance toclear themselves." [^slack_pm] # Matching terms High-confidence: `wuhan institute of virology`, `wiv`, `shi zhengli`, `zhengli`, `wuhan lab`, `wuhan laboratory` Supporting: `wuhan`, `china cdc`, `chinese academy of sciences`, `batwoman`, `collaborator`, `chinese colleagues` # Sources [^baric_ti]: [baric_ti](/sources/baric-ti.md) [^cbp_release]: [cbp_release](/sources/cbp-release.md) [^daszak_cbp]: [daszak_cbp](/sources/daszak-cbp.md) [^diary_prequel]: [diary_prequel](/sources/diary-prequel.md) [^fauci_diary]: [fauci_diary](/sources/fauci-diary.md) [^fauci_intel]: [fauci_intel](/sources/fauci-intel.md) [^gates]: [gates](/sources/gates.md) [^letter_dni]: [letter_dni](/sources/letter-dni.md) [^nih_public_comments]: [nih_public_comments](/sources/nih-public-comments.md) [^reading_room]: [reading_room](/sources/reading-room.md) [^slack_pm]: [slack_pm](/sources/slack-pm.md)