Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, who worked on Moderna vaccine, cements her place in history

Posted Jun 14, 2022
Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett is a researcher with a PhD in microbiology and immunology. She works as an assistant professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and as the Shutzer assistant professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. She first caught the research bug as a teenager, working in a lab at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. (CBS News)

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