The research at the Wuhan lab, involving both U.S. and Chinese scientists, was partially funded by NIAID under Fauci.
Trump Bans Most But Not All ‘Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research’
reported by Children’s Defense Research:
The Trump administration on Tuesday released a policy restricting high-risk life sciences research, including a ban on federal support for “dangerous gain-of-function research,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced in a press release.
The policy follows President Donald Trump’s May 2025 executive order directing the U.S. government to temporarily suspend dangerous gain-of-function research. At the time, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other agencies paused research projects that may have fallen under that definition.
The policy was released as the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee prepared to question Dr. Anthony Fauci, former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), today about his possible role in the origins of COVID-19.
Gain-of-function research, which increases the transmissibility or virulence of viruses, is often used in vaccine development. It’s the type of research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, that led to the theory that the virus that causes COVID-19 was developed at the lab and subsequently leaked.
The research at the Wuhan lab, involving both U.S. and Chinese scientists, was partially funded by NIAID under Fauci.
