On Aug. 19, 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began requiring a small nonprofit research organization to take unusual – and perhaps impossible – steps to end a controversial suspension of an NIH grant related to bat coronavirus research in China.

NIH’s conditions for reinstating the funding to the EcoHealth Alliance are ‘outrageous’ former NIH Director Harold Varmus told The Wall Street Journal in an article published that first reported the agency’s demands.