For the only active-duty member on Walter Reed Army Institute of Research’s coronavirus vaccine development team, the job fulfills a dream he’s had since he was 14: to be an Army microbiologist.
The young officer and doctoral candidate at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is helping the WRAIR team develop a protein vaccine, which targets a portion of the virus — its protein shell — that includes the nubs seen in photos of the virus and several other types of protein.
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