NIH renews controversial grant for bat virus research linked to Wuhan lab.
The National Institute of Health (NIH) has restarted a bat virus research grant that was canceled three years ago under the Trump administration. The original grant funded research into mixing various bat viruses to study SARS and also funded research at the coronavirus research lab in Wuhan, China. The new version of the award, granted to EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), will not focus on mixing live bat viruses, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology will no longer be directly involved in research. The EHA will partner with the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore to identify how coronaviruses might infect human cells.