Dr Corbett is black woman leading the team for the coronavirus vaccine

As a doctor at the National Institute of Health in Maryland, she started intense research for a vaccine.

She says it’s'‘a testament to rapid vaccine development for emerging diseases'‘in a tweet.

Dr. Corbetts research interests entail elucidating mechanisms of viral pathogenesis and host immunity as they pertain to vaccine development.

She was also an NIH scholar and a Meyerhoff Scholar.

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