Implementing Governmental Oversight of Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogen Research

Authors

• Richard H. Ebright, Department of Chemistry and Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
• Raina MacIntyre, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• Joseph P. Dudley, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA.
• Colin D. Butler, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
• Andre Goffinet, Institute of Neuroscience, UC Louvain, Louvain, Belgium.
• Edward Hammond, Sunshine Project, Austin, Texas, USA.
• Elisa D. Harris, Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls, US National Security Council, Washington DC, USA.
• Hideki Kakeya, Institute of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
• Yanna Lambrinidou, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia Tech, Falls Church, Virginia, USA.
• Milton Leitenberg, Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
• Stuart A. Newman, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA.Follow
• Bryce E. Nickels, Department of Molecular Biology and Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
• Monali C. Rahalkar, Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India.
• Matt W. Ridley, Science and Technology Select Committee, UK House of Lords, Newcastle, United Kingdom.
• Steven L. Salzberg, Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
• Harish Seshadri, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
• Günter Theißen, Matthias Schleiden Institute of Genetics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany.
• Antonius M. VanDongen, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
• Alex Washburne, Selva Nexus, LLC, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

Author Type(s)

Faculty

DOI

10.1128/jvi.00237-24

Journal Title

Journal of Virology

First Page

e0023724

Document Type

Letter to the Editor

Publication Date

4-16-2024

Department

Cell Biology and Anatomy

Keywords

National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research, gain of function research, oversight

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

Recommended Citation

Ebright, R. H., MacIntyre, R., Dudley, J. P., Butler, C. D., Goffinet, A., Hammond, E., Harris, E. D., Kakeya, H., Lambrinidou, Y., Leitenberg, M., Newman, S. A., Nickels, B. E., Rahalkar, M. C., Ridley, M. W., Salzberg, S. L., Seshadri, H., Theißen, G., VanDongen, A. M., & Washburne, A. (2024). Implementing Governmental Oversight of Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogen Research. Journal of Virology, 98 (4), e0023724. https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.00237-24