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Kristian G. Andersen

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Kristian Andersen is a Danish evolutionary biologist and professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.[1]

Andersen obtained a BSc in molecular biology from Aarhus University in 2004, and a PhD in immunology from the University of Cambridge in 2009.

COVID-19

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Andersen and other scientists consulted the NIH and NIAID about the possibility of a lab leak.[2][3][4] Dr. Andersen, in an email to Dr. Fauci in January 2020, told Dr. Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, that some features of the virus made him wonder whether it had been engineered, and noted that he and his colleagues were planning to investigate further by analyzing the virus’s genome.[5] However, less than two months later, Andersen was the lead author of the scientific paper The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,[6] published in Nature Medicine in March 2020, which concluded that "SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus". The authors were criticized for failing to disclose potential conflicts of interest. In a 2022 paper, Andersen concluded that animals sold in a market in Wuhan, China were most likely to be the source of the virus.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Scripps Research Faculty". scripps.edu.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ Hibbett, Maia; Grim, Ryan (January 12, 2022). "House Republicans Release Text of Redacted Fauci Emails on Covid Origins". The Intercept. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
  3. ^ Gorman, James; Zimmer, Carl (June 14, 2021). "Scientist Opens Up About His Early Email to Fauci on Virus Origins" – via NYTimes.com.
  4. ^ "The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory". The New Yorker. October 12, 2021.
  5. ^ Gorman, James; Zimmer, Carl (2021-06-14). "Scientist Opens Up About His Early Email to Fauci on Virus Origins". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-10-28.
  6. ^ Kristian G Andersen; Andrew Rambaut; W Ian Lipkin; Edward C. Holmes; Robert F Garry (1 April 2020). "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2". Nature Medicine. 26 (4): 450–452. doi:10.1038/S41591-020-0820-9. ISSN 1078-8956. PMC 7095063. PMID 32284615. Wikidata Q87830056.
  7. ^ Christensen, Jen (July 27, 2022). "Covid-19 origins: New studies agree that animals sold at Wuhan market are most likely what started pandemic". CNN. Retrieved 2022-07-27.


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