NIH Restarts Bat Virus Grant Suspended Three Years Ago by Trump

The new four-year grant is a stripped-down version of the original grant to the EcoHealth Alliance. That 2014 award included funding for controversial experiments that mixed parts of different bat viruses related to severe acute respiratory syndrome, and included a subaward to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The new award omits those studies, and also imposes extensive new accounting rules on EcoHealth, which drew criticism from government auditors for its bookkeeping practices.