The Seeker(@TheSeeker268):Lisa E Gralinski, a researcher in Ralph Baric's lab at UNC Chapel Hill, provided guidance and protocols for animal experiments at WIV involving SARS-like chimeras in 2017. Note: The thesis contains no animal experiments itself. But in Chapter 3, it explicitly identifies animal work as a proposed next step to test whether monoclonal antibodies can protect animals from infection by the strains. Another nice find by Francisco.

2026.08.09 20:05

Lisa E Gralinski, a researcher in Ralph Baric's lab at UNC Chapel Hill, provided guidance and protocols for animal experiments at WIV involving SARS-like chimeras in 2017. Note: The thesis contains no animal experiments itself. But in Chapter 3, it explicitly identifies animal work as a proposed next step to test whether monoclonal antibodies can protect animals from infection by the strains. Another nice find by Francisco.

Francisco de Asis@franciscodeasis

2026.08.09 15:02

@Drinkwater5Reed Addendum. We overlooked this in Zeng’s thesis: “I would like to thank […] Lisa E Gralinski for her guidance on animal experiments” (动物实验). Gralinski (@lisagralinski, now deleted) is from Baric’s lab. What animal experiments? The thesis does not describe any.