An investment firm directed by President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden was a leading financial backer of a pandemic tracking and response firm that collaborated on bird flu research in Ukrainian laboratories, receiving funds from the Obama administration's Department of Defense in the process.
Former managing director and co-founder of RSTP Neil Callahan - a name that also appears many times on Hunter Biden's infamous hard drive - sits on Metabiota's Board of Advisors alongside former Clinton official Rob Walker who discussed, in another unearthed Hunter Biden hard drive e-mail, reaching out to the Obama Department of Defense with regard to Metabiota.
US Department of Defense ; Black & Veatch and Metabiota corporations; Curtis "BJ" Bjelajac, Executive Director, and Vlada Pashynska, Senior Specialist represented the STCU. Government contracts also corroborate the working relationship between Metabiota, Ukrainian laboratories, and the U.S. Defense Department, with the firm receiving an $18.4 million grant from the U.S. agency in 2014.
A total of $307,091, allocated to Metabiota on September 25th, was itemized for "Ukraine research projects." Additional information on what research Metabiota conducted or the Biden family's involvement remains scarce, though several research papers addressing avian influenza have been attributed to Metabiota researchers.
The founder of Metabiota, Nathan Wolfe, also has a robust media footprint discussing bird flu, including penning op-eds for CNN and participating in interviews with the World Economic Forum.
"Outbreaks of HPAI in Ukraine highlight the continual need for biosurveillance and genomic sequencing of avian influenza viruses along wild bird flyways and interfaces with domestic poultry in Eurasia," concluded the paper.
Metabiota's Head of Data Research Damien Joly contributed to the papers, "Historical Prevalence and Distribution of Avian Influenza Virus A(H7N9) among Wild Birds" and "Sampling Strategies and Biodiversity of Influenza A Subtypes in Wild Birds." Metabiota's CEO, for example, edited the paper "Biosurveillance of avian influenza and Newcastle disease viruses in the Barda region of Azerbaijan." Matthew LeBreton, a Metabiota researcher, was also an author on the paper "Highly pathogenic avian influenza A/H5N1 Clade 2.3.2.1c virus in poultry in Cameroon, 2016-2017."
https://warroom.org/biden-pandemic-firm-backed-ukraine-bird-flu-researc/
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