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The institute is one of nine independent organisations in the Wuhan Branch of the CAS. [4] Located in Jiangxia District, Wuhan, Hubei, it was founded in 1956 and opened mainland China's first biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory [5] in 2018. The institute has collaborated with the Galveston National Laboratory in the United States, the Centre ...
- WIV
- Chen Huagui, Gao Shangyin
- 1956
Wuhan Institute of Virology mission targeting for population health, agriculture and sustainable development strategies and public safety needs of the country, relying on high-level biosafety laboratory cluster platform, focusing on virology, Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology and emerging biotechnology basic and applied basic research and other aspects.
Jan 15, 2021 · The previously undisclosed information in this fact sheet, combined with open-source reporting, highlights three elements about COVID-19’s origin that deserve greater scrutiny: 1. Illnesses inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV): The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019 ...
Mar 1, 2023 · The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has been studying coronaviruses in bats for over a decade. The institute is a 40-minute drive from the Huanan wet market where the first cluster of infections ...
Mar 17, 2023 · The Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2021. The Energy Department concluded with “low confidence” that an accidental laboratory leak most likely caused the coronavirus pandemic. But new genetic ...
The predecessor of Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences was the Wuhan Institute of Microbiology, prepared to be built in 1956, jointly established by the famous virologist academician Gao Shangyin and the famous microbiologist academician Chen Huagui and a batch of older generation scientists, formally announced to be established in 1958, mainly engaged in agricultural ...
Jun 8, 2021 · The Wuhan Institute of Virology has carried out research on coronaviruses for years because these pathogens are endemic to the region where it's located. Credit: Kyodo News via Getty.
