Metabiota, EcoHealth, UNM, and Fulgent Networks

🧵 Hantavirus isn't supposed to be Human-to-human transmissible. But would we even know if it is?

1/ Links between Metabiota / EcoHealth Alliance / Wuhan Institute of Virology and University of New Mexico

🚨EcoHealth Alliance and UNM were members of the same multi-institution consortium: the USAID-funded One Health Workforce—Next Generation project (other members included UC Davis as lead, Columbia University, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, Ata Health Strategies, and Sandia National Laboratories)

🚨Co-authorship on scientific publications:
EcoHealth Alliance researchers and UNM researchers jointly contributed to at least one study identifying viruses in bats and rodents.

🚨Metabiota referenced in UNM academic work:
A UNM dissertation/thesis on global health politics and coordination cited Metabiota staff experiences (e.g., in Sierra Leone).

🚨Possible pass-through/sub-award funding:
Federal funding records list EcoHealth Alliance and UNM in proximity in pass-through assistance documentation.

🚨WIV mentioned in UNM foreign-influence documentation:
UNM’s own institutional reports on foreign influence reference inquiries or disclosures involving relationships with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (part of broader U.S. university reviews).

👀Key highlight:
The EcoHealth–UNM co-authored publication above specifically addressed viruses found in rodents (and bats). UNM has conducted separate research on hantavirus carriage in >30 species of New Mexico rodents and small mammals.

2/ Links between University of New Mexico and Fulgent Therapeutics/Genetics and/or Ming Hsieh

Fulgent Genetics ties to UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center:
Multiple UNM cancer-center-affiliated publications list Fulgent Genetics in acknowledgments, methods, or competing-interest disclosures.

UNM authors have disclosed stock ownership in Fulgent Genetics.

Fulgent Genetics joined the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) Corporate Roundtable (UNM CCC is an AACI member).

Ming Hsieh–UNM academic personnel pipeline:
Ming Hsieh founded and leads Fulgent Genetics (he served as manager of predecessor Fulgent Therapeutics LLC, then CEO/Chairman of Fulgent Genetics).

His namesake Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at USC has documented alumni/faculty overlaps with UNM (e.g., UNM ECE faculty who trained or were advised in programs linked to the department).

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