“Ralph Baric, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of NORTH CAROLINA (emphasis added) at Chapel Hill, last week (November 9) published a study on his team’s efforts to engineer a virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice.”
The Scientist - November 16, 2015
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/lab-made-coronavirus-triggers-debate-34502
Yep.
Probably where this whole thing started.