Ralph Baric, seen here at the UNC Gillings School of Public Health laboratory in September 2021, has over four decades of researching coronaviruses built the foundation for the rapid response and ...

UNC professor Ralph Baric is scholar on coronaviruses, covid vaccines. His work has made him target of those who say COVID-19 pandemic came from Wuhan lab leak.

UNC professor Ralph Baric is scholar on coronaviruses, covid vaccines. His work has made him target of those who say COVID-19 pandemic came from Wuhan lab leak.

Ralph Baric’s science combating COVID-19 has been celebrated. But his work is also a target of people who believe the virus that caused the pandemic was human-made.

Dr. Ralph Baric is a coronavirus expert who collaborated with the research lab in Wuhan, China, where COVID-19 was first identified. He was researching viruses in bats in that area.

A secretive North Carolina legislative commission wants UNC-Chapel Hill to release a slew of records linked to elite coronavirus researcher Ralph Baric. Baric’s life’s work laid the foundation ...