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Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that an NIAID spokesperson told STAT in late May 2023 that there had been no formal proposal to do gain-of-function research on mpox and the institution had no plan to proceed with the study. That information was relayed from HHS to Republican lawmakers in April 2023.

For more than half a century, scientist Bernard Moss has been commanding the attention of peers interested in prying biological secrets from poxviruses and other microbiological targets. Now he’s commanding the attention of a different audience: House Republicans.

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Moss, who will mark his 86th birthday in late July and who goes by Bernie, has worked for more than 55 years in the laboratories of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md. Over that time, he has been investigating viruses in relative anonymity — except, that is, among the virological cognoscenti.

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