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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nEcoHealth Alliance<\/a> was non-compliant with eight different portions of a written agreement it entered into with the U.S. government, NIH informed the group in a letter<\/a> sent last week that was made public recently by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EcoHealth failed to allow access to the Wuhan lab\u2019s records and financial statements, report inventions created at the lab, or certify that the requirements imposed by it on the lab to make sure the funds were used in accordance with U.S. laws and regulations, among other failures, said Dr. Michael Lauer, an NIH deputy director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEcoHealth has demonstrated a history of failure to comply with several elements of the terms and conditions of grant awards not only for these active awards, but also for the suspended award, R0AI110964,\u201d Lauer informed Drs. Aleksei Chmura and Peter Daszak, EcoHealth\u2019s chief of staff and president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NIH had previously suspended a single grant to EcoHealth but allowed the agency to continue to receive funds through other awards despite its links to the Wuhan lab, which is located near where the first COVID-19 cases were first identified in late 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n U.S. intelligence officials have obtained evidence that the virus that causes COVID-19 may have come from the lab, but other officials have argued it has a natural origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n COVID-19 is the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus<\/a>. The CCP has refused to cooperate with many investigators attempting to probe the virus\u2019 origins throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EcoHealth has not responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Republicans on the House Oversight Committee said the new letter \u201cconfirms EcoHealth hid the truth about their risky coronavirus experiments in Wuhan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In October of last year, Republicans successfully obtained information from the NIH that showed, according to many experts<\/a>, that the U.S.-funded experiments at the lab included gain-of-function research on modified bat coronaviruses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scientists there used a modified virus strain that ended up making mice sicker when compared to mice infected with the original strain, Lawrence Tabak, now the NIH\u2019s director, previously told lawmakers in a letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jack Nunberg, a virologist and director of the Montana Biotechnology Center at the University of Montana, told The Epoch Times in an email that the experiments were \u201coverly risky\u201d and Jonathan Latham, executive director of The Bioscience Research Project, said the experiments \u201cclearly constituted gain-of-function.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Biden administration officials had alleged that the NIH didn\u2019t fund gain-of-function experiments in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n