https://www.icandecide.org/ican_foia/nih-officials-stand-to-earn-millions-from-moderna-vaccine/

ICAN can now officially confirm that officials within the National Institute of Health (NIH) who are working to develop a vaccine for novel coronavirus (COVID-19) stand to personally earn millions of dollars from sales of this vaccine.

When government officials will profit from the sale of a product, there is cause for concern regarding their licensure and promotion of that product.

The first vaccine for COVID-19 to begin trials in the United States is mRNA-1273. This experimental vaccine was developed by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), which is part of the NIH, along with a biotech company, Moderna Inc., the company that will sell this product to the public.

To receive a share of the profit from the sale of mRNA-1273, the inventors of this product within NIAID would submit an Employee Invention Report to the NIH Office of Technology Transfer. Each inventor stands to receive a personal payment of up to $150k annually from the sales of mRNA-1273. NIAID also stands to earn millions of dollars in revenue from the sale of mRNA-1273 in addition to what its inventors within NIAID earn personally.

Moderna will pay a license fee to NIAID (or its parent agency) to use its patents related to mRNA-1273 and a portion of those fees are then paid directly to the inventors within NIAID who developed those patents.

There are two patents for which the following six individuals in NIAID appear to be listed as inventors which relate to development of mRNA-1273:

Barney Graham, Deputy Director, NIAID Vaccine Research Center

Kizzmekia Shanta Corbett, Scientific Lead, NIAID’s Coronavirus Vaccine Program

Michael Gordon Joyce, NIAID

Hadi Yassine, NIAID

Masaru Kanekiyo, NIAID

Olubukola Abiona, NIAID

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you asked…

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Daszak—Ukrainian

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/email-shows-researcher-who-funded-wuhan-lab-admits-manipulating-coronaviruses-thanked

Daszak notes that “coronaviruses are pretty good… you can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily… the spiked proteins drive a lot about what happens. You can get the sequence you can build the protein, we work with Ralph Baric at UNC to do this, insert into the backbone of another virus and do some work in a lab.”

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revelations further implicate those who approved U.S. grants to the lab, and the EcoHealth Alliance run by the British-born Peter Dazcak

https://newsessentials.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/ecohealth-alliance-hid-nearly-40-million-in-pentagon-funding/

Investigation reveals $34.6 million of the just-under $39 million EcoHealth Alliance received in Pentagon funding from 2013 to 2020 came from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a branch of the DOD tasked to “counter and deter weapons of mass destruction and improvised threat networks.”

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To be strictly fair to the media, Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance obscures its Pentagon funding. On its website EcoHealth Alliance states that “A copy of the EHA Grant Management Manual is available upon request to the EHA Chief Financial Officer at finance ( at ) ecohealthalliance.org”. But an email to that address and numerous others, including Peter Daszak’s, requesting that Manual, as well as other financial information, was not returned. Neither were repeated voicemails.

Only buried under their “Privacy Policy,” under a section titled “EcoHealth Alliance Policy Regarding Conflict of Interest in Research,” does the EcoHealth Alliance concede it is the “recipient of various grant awards from federal agencies including the National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Department of Defense.”

Even this listing is deceptive. It obscures that its two largest funders are the Pentagon and the State Department (USAID); whereas the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which accounts for a minuscule $74,487, comes before either.

Meticulous investigation of U.S. government databases reveals that Pentagon funding for the EcoHealth Alliance from 2013 to 2020, including contracts, grants and subcontracts, was just under $39 million. Most, $34.6 million, was from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), which is a branch of the DOD which states it is tasked to “counter and deter weapons of mass destruction and improvised threat networks.”