O-35 - DEFUSE was a consortium of EcoHealth, UNC (Baric), the Wuhan Institute of Virology (Shi), Duke-NUS, USGS and PARC, with WIV assigned viral testing and humanized-mouse work
Establishes that the WIV was a designated executing partner, and that the chimera/reverse-engineering work leaned on UNC’s Baric group. (Quote reconciled from degraded OCR of the scanned proposal.)
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Why this is evidence
The WIV being a designated DEFUSE executing partner (viral testing, binding assays, humanised-mouse work) places exactly this virus family under research handling in Wuhan — raising both research members (H-42, H-43) over H-41.