at the National Institutes of Health By Meredith WadmanScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is requiring a small nonprofit research organization to take unusual—and perhaps impossible—steps to end a controversial suspension of an NIH grant related to bat coronavirus research in China.
NIH’s conditions for reinstating the funding to the EcoHealth Alliance are “outrageous,” former NIH Director Harold Varmus told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in an article published today.The controversy began in April, after President Donald Trump complained about NIH’s grant to the Alliance because it involved researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of.