I don't have an answer to your question, but if you search the EcoHealth subgrant award file, you find that Georgia center is listed on 5 rows of data (rows 49,50,51,53, & 60), getting a total of $213,067.51 in subgrants from EcoH 2019-2021, funds that originated from the DOD.
FWIW, here is the "subaward description" from the file: "Staff from the National Center for Public Health Research â R. Lugar Center collaborate with EcoHealth Alliance staff to characterize the diversity of bats and bat-borne coronaviruses (CoVs) in Georgia, and test key hypotheses about bat-borne zoonotic virus emergence risk within Western Asia. Our points of contact at the R. Lugar Center for this project are Dr. Keti Sidamonidze and Dr. Lela Urushadze. They and several additional staff have received training in best practices for bat sampling and biosafety, and are actively capturing bats, collecting non-lethal diagnostic samples, and characterizing bat-human interfaces at multiple sites in Georgia. The R. Lugar Center also serves as one of two regional laboratories responsible for testing diagnostic samples collected through the project. Dr. Sidamonidze, Dr. Urushadze, and supporting R. Lugar staff members test diagnostic samples through the use of standardized protocols and strict biosafety practices. Lastly, Dr. Sidamonidze, Dr. Urushadze, and supporting R. Lugar staff members are also active members of the Western Asia Bat Research Network (WAB-Net) - a network that facilitates scientific collaboration among diverse experts in Western Asia to promote bat research - and participate in the WAB-Net's annual scientific workshops."
Thanks! I can't access those parts of the subcontracts for some reason. It's probably me. Urushadze wrote a doctoral thesis from that coronavirus bat study. They identified several MERS/SARS like coronavirus from bats in Georgia. I don't see these virus sequences discussed by people searching for the origins of SARS2. Here's that link to Urushadze's thesis with the coronavirus information from caves in Georgia. http://eprints.iliauni.edu.ge/8640/1/ლელა%20ურუშაძე.pdf
It's not easy to translate. Another project of mine, LOL.
I'm just wondering what all they were up to at Lugar Center.
Looks like a lot of subgrants started December 2019? That doesn't look like a coincidence after the COVID outbreak. Maybe they were testing a "cure," like a vaccine or Remdesivir at Jarvis Island? Some of the Jarvis Island grants began in 2017? Tsertsvadze traveled to visit Fauci in 2017. Lots of history between Gilead Sciences, Fauci, and Lugar Center. I don't know. Or maybe they were just giving seabirds diseases to fly around and infect the world. Lots of questions. Just speculating. I definitely appreciate you investigating other EcoHealth projects in addition to Wuhan. Thank you.
There are a lot of easier places to study covid vaccines and therapies than a Pacific island with birds, but I do hope someone asks the Jordanian researcher about the Jarvis Island part of her Western Asia grant.
Fauci restarted GOF biodefense research in 2017, and Repub admins tend to up defense spending—might be part of explanation on timing, but does seem like SARS research got hot for some reason.
If you go to the 8th post in my pinned Jarvis Island thread on Twitter @capitolsheila I walk ya through how to find the subgrant file, gotta toggle, then it gives ya a zip file and you look at the subaward file. Would be great to have more eyes on it!
I'll get back to you if I can'f find next time I look. I found some zip files but they didn't have anything in it like the screenshots you showed. I don' t know if you want to do this, but can you upload them to google docs or something? That would be easier for many people to look at. Thank you for your very important research.
What a fascinating discovery and knowing USAID is CIA collaborator it makes the mystery more curious. Incredible what webs emerge with enough digging and bravo for the fab work here!
You might try filing FOIA requests to see if you could get anything related. Muckrock has a great submission template that makes it easy to do. https://www.muckrock.com/
Good stuff. How do you think L SAKVARELIDZE NATIONAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PUBLIC HEALTH fit in?
Thanks for reading!
I don't have an answer to your question, but if you search the EcoHealth subgrant award file, you find that Georgia center is listed on 5 rows of data (rows 49,50,51,53, & 60), getting a total of $213,067.51 in subgrants from EcoH 2019-2021, funds that originated from the DOD.
FWIW, here is the "subaward description" from the file: "Staff from the National Center for Public Health Research â R. Lugar Center collaborate with EcoHealth Alliance staff to characterize the diversity of bats and bat-borne coronaviruses (CoVs) in Georgia, and test key hypotheses about bat-borne zoonotic virus emergence risk within Western Asia. Our points of contact at the R. Lugar Center for this project are Dr. Keti Sidamonidze and Dr. Lela Urushadze. They and several additional staff have received training in best practices for bat sampling and biosafety, and are actively capturing bats, collecting non-lethal diagnostic samples, and characterizing bat-human interfaces at multiple sites in Georgia. The R. Lugar Center also serves as one of two regional laboratories responsible for testing diagnostic samples collected through the project. Dr. Sidamonidze, Dr. Urushadze, and supporting R. Lugar staff members test diagnostic samples through the use of standardized protocols and strict biosafety practices. Lastly, Dr. Sidamonidze, Dr. Urushadze, and supporting R. Lugar staff members are also active members of the Western Asia Bat Research Network (WAB-Net) - a network that facilitates scientific collaboration among diverse experts in Western Asia to promote bat research - and participate in the WAB-Net's annual scientific workshops."
Thanks! I can't access those parts of the subcontracts for some reason. It's probably me. Urushadze wrote a doctoral thesis from that coronavirus bat study. They identified several MERS/SARS like coronavirus from bats in Georgia. I don't see these virus sequences discussed by people searching for the origins of SARS2. Here's that link to Urushadze's thesis with the coronavirus information from caves in Georgia. http://eprints.iliauni.edu.ge/8640/1/ლელა%20ურუშაძე.pdf
It's not easy to translate. Another project of mine, LOL.
I'm just wondering what all they were up to at Lugar Center.
Looks like a lot of subgrants started December 2019? That doesn't look like a coincidence after the COVID outbreak. Maybe they were testing a "cure," like a vaccine or Remdesivir at Jarvis Island? Some of the Jarvis Island grants began in 2017? Tsertsvadze traveled to visit Fauci in 2017. Lots of history between Gilead Sciences, Fauci, and Lugar Center. I don't know. Or maybe they were just giving seabirds diseases to fly around and infect the world. Lots of questions. Just speculating. I definitely appreciate you investigating other EcoHealth projects in addition to Wuhan. Thank you.
There are a lot of easier places to study covid vaccines and therapies than a Pacific island with birds, but I do hope someone asks the Jordanian researcher about the Jarvis Island part of her Western Asia grant.
Fauci restarted GOF biodefense research in 2017, and Repub admins tend to up defense spending—might be part of explanation on timing, but does seem like SARS research got hot for some reason.
If you go to the 8th post in my pinned Jarvis Island thread on Twitter @capitolsheila I walk ya through how to find the subgrant file, gotta toggle, then it gives ya a zip file and you look at the subaward file. Would be great to have more eyes on it!
I'll get back to you if I can'f find next time I look. I found some zip files but they didn't have anything in it like the screenshots you showed. I don' t know if you want to do this, but can you upload them to google docs or something? That would be easier for many people to look at. Thank you for your very important research.
What a fascinating discovery and knowing USAID is CIA collaborator it makes the mystery more curious. Incredible what webs emerge with enough digging and bravo for the fab work here!
You might try filing FOIA requests to see if you could get anything related. Muckrock has a great submission template that makes it easy to do. https://www.muckrock.com/
I'm all over the Columbia aspect because Andy taught me to hate his college rival...
https://youtu.be/rKSti1O0Bio