He is the Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University and Laboratory Director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology.
[2] Ebright was appointed as a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at Rutgers University and as a Laboratory Director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology in 1987.
[24] He is featured in a high school textbook published by NCERT (recommended by the CBSE) in India, in a piece titled 'The Making of a Scientist,' which is adapted from an article of the same name written by Robert W. Peterson for Boy's Life magazine.
[27] Ebright has stated that the genome and properties of SARS-CoV-2 provide no basis to conclude the virus was engineered as a bioweapon,[28][29] but he also has stated that the possibility that the virus entered humans through a laboratory accident cannot be dismissed and has called for a thorough investigation of the origin of the pandemic and for measures to reduce the risk of future pandemics.
[35] The Los Angeles Times's Michael Hiltzik has said that Ebright has "been posting online insinuations or accusations" of fraud, perjury, and murder regarding scientists that have supported a zoonotic origin of COVID-19 and dismissed the lab leak theory.