Yes. Doesn't matter when he was appointed, it could have been 1948 for all I care.
What I and the OP are referring to is the "gain of function" research. In case you haven't been keeping up on current events, that's where a fairly innocuous disease gets engineered to be more contagious and/or cause more damage in those that it infects. This research was done at the Wuhan lab with funds provided by the U.S. Government approved by Fauci during the Obama administration.
Get it?