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Chinese virologist (1964-)
Ralph Baric and Shi Zhengli collaborated on published work that in 2015 described creating a chimeric coronavirus in the lab by placing a bat-virus spike gene onto a SARS backbone to test cross-specie...
There is a sustained, contested debate about whether the COVID-19 pandemic began with a natural spillover from animals or from a laboratory-related incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). M...
Ralph S. Baric and Shi Zhengli appear as co‑authors or collaborators on a small set of high‑profile coronavirus papers that documented making chimeric bat–SARS viruses and studying spike‑protein chang...
Ralph Baric, a prominent coronavirus researcher at the University of North Carolina, has a documented history of scientific collaboration and communication with Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) scien...
U.S.-based scientists led by Ralph Baric collaborated with Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers including Shi Zhengli on published coronavirus experiments before the COVID-19 pandemic, and U.S. fed...
UNC–Chapel Hill scientist Ralph Baric collaborated on published coronavirus research with Wuhan Institute of Virology colleagues, including work showing bat SARS‑related viruses could infect human cel...