🚨BREAKING: RFK is funding an NIH grant with a Siberian plague lab collaborator. - A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation exposes $779,689 in new NIH funding under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for an animal experimentation collaboration with a Russian lab that has conducted plague research with the Siberian facility at the center of a deadly lab leak controversy.  - Federal spending records and documents exclusively obtained by WCW show how, as recently as September 2026, RFK’s NIH renewed funding for University of Illinois animal experiments conducted in cooperation with Russia’s Institute of Cytology and Genetics (ICG) in Siberia. - Records show the state-run ICG has specifically collaborated on plague research with the now-infamous Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute, where a lab worker’s recent death has sparked concerns of another lab leak and cover-up. - RFK’s NIH has twice renewed taxpayer funding for this collaboration with a Siberian animal lab — even after the Biden administration cut off research collaborations with Russia following a WCW investigation in 2022. - WCW was the very first to expose how Dr. Fauci funded the Wuhan lab in 2020, and the first to show how NIH continued to fund and cover-up dangerous virus experiments at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory, along with other setbacks for animals under RFK.  @HHSResponse @NIHDirector_Jay @DrJBhattacharya @SecKennedy @RobertKennedyJr whitecoatwaste.org/blog/2026…