Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 118

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com DR. BARIC: I recall sending them WIV1 and SHSC014 for studies in bats. It's possible that we sent them the pangolin coronavirus. I'd have to check the MTA agreements. MS. SALAZAR: I guess, is that something that's published, the pangolin beta coronavirus? What is that? DR. BARIC: I had mentioned it previously. It's called pangolin coronavirus GD strain, and it was published in Nature Microbiology. MS. SALAZAR: And do you know what RML was doing with that? DR. BARIC: RML, again, I'd have to look at the MTA agreement that would tell me what was in it. We would have to pull it from the MTA. I can tell you that during the pandemic we did hundreds of MTA agreements with research institutions in the United States. If you ask me if I can remember this one directly, I can't, because if I had a person in my lab who I would say, "Take care of this MTA agreement," and they would do it. MS. SALAZAR: Is it typical that the transmittal fee would be zero? I just don't know. DR. BARIC: It depends on how much money I would have. MS. SALAZAR: Okay. Like what does that range sometimes look like? DR. BARIC: Whatever the shipping cost are.