Yujia Alina Chan
Yujia Alina Chan is a Canadian molecular biologist specializing in gene therapy and cell engineering who served as a scientific advisor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard from January 2022 to January 2025. She earned her PhD from the University of British Columbia and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute from 2018 to 2021. She is best known for co-authoring a preprint suggesting SARS-CoV-2 was pre-adapted to humans and advocating for investigation into the possibility of a laboratory origin of COVID-19, and co-authored the book Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 with science journalist Matt Ridley.
“New York Times — Cited for excellent 3D investigative reconstruction of the Surfside collapse and for publishing Alina Chan's op-eds on COVID origins, plus Martin Fackler's 20-year Tokyo bureau reporting on Fukushima.”
Source→“Alina Chan — Molecular biologist among the first to identify that the virus 'looks like it was designed for humans'; co-authored a book with Matt Ridley.”
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