This afternoon I signed an Executive Order protecting Americans from dangerous gain-of-function research. Read more here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/improving-the-safety-and-security-of-biological-research/
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the first relates to gain of function research. Gain of function research is a type of biomedical research where pathogens are adulterated viruses or adulterated to make them more potent or to change the way that they function. Many people believe that gain of function research was one of the key causes of the COVID pandemic that struck us in the last decade. What this executive order does, first of all, it provides powerful new tools to enforce the ban on federal funding for gain of function research abroad. It also strengthens other oversight mechanisms related to that issue and creates an overarching strategy to ensure that biomedical research in general is being conducted safely and in a way that ultimately protects human health more. It's a big deal. It could have been that we wouldn't have had the problem we had. A lot of people say that, sir. If we had this done earlier, thank you.
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This afternoon I signed an Executive Order protecting Americans from dangerous gain-of-function research. Read more here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/improving-the-safety-and-security-of-biological-research/
Video transcript 1:01
the first relates to gain of function research. Gain of function research is a type of biomedical research where pathogens are adulterated viruses or adulterated to make them more potent or to change the way that they function. Many people believe that gain of function research was one of the key causes of the COVID pandemic that struck us in the last decade. What this executive order does, first of all, it provides powerful new tools to enforce the ban on federal funding for gain of function research abroad. It also strengthens other oversight mechanisms related to that issue and creates an overarching strategy to ensure that biomedical research in general is being conducted safely and in a way that ultimately protects human health more. It's a big deal. It could have been that we wouldn't have had the problem we had. A lot of people say that, sir. If we had this done earlier, thank you.
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