The executive order implements supervision measures to improve the safety of biomedical research and creates
.@POTUS on gain-of-function: "It can leak out, like from Wuhan … I said that right from day one."@SecKennedy: "There's no laboratory that's immune from leaks — and this is going to prevent inadvertent leaks from happening in the future and endangering humanity." pic.twitter.com/bRdqf7bXwd
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 5, 2025
New enforcement instruments for government funds associated with gain-of-function research overseas.
Through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the presidential order denounced what it described as Biden’s careless acceptance of gain-of-function research in China, where the US had little control.
It states that “the Biden Administration permitted risky gain-of-function research in the United States with inadequate levels of oversight.” “Federal life-science research funding in China and other
Countries where there is limited U.S. oversight or reasonable expectation of biosafety enforcement was also actively approved through the National Institutes of Health.”
— gorklon rust (@elonmusk) May 6, 2025
The order then stated that COVID-19 was a wake-up call for the federal government to take action and cautioned that such carelessness may lead to the spread of research viruses if left unchecked.
