NIH Renews Canceled Grant Probing Bat Coronavirus Link (1)

May 8, 2023, 7:22 PM UTCUpdated: May 8, 2023, 9:36 PM UTC

The NIH renewed a coronavirus research grant that the Trump administration ordered to be terminated because of its ties to a laboratory in Wuhan, China, the research grantee said.

EcoHealth Alliance, a New York-based nongovernmental organization, announced Monday that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, issued the grant renewal on research to analyze more new whole genomes and genome segments of coronavirus related to severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.

“The research in this study is focused on bat coronaviruses, to understand how, when, and under what conditions they are ...

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