Inside the High Stakes New Life of a Coronavirus Specialist, UNC Researcher Timothy Sheahan

Posted May 5, 2020
Timothy Sheahan is a virologist in the Baric Lab at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Public Health. A rising leader in coronavirus research, he specializes in trying to find vaccines and antibodies that fight them—which now puts him basically at the epicenter of science’s battle against the pandemic. Of course, everybody feels anxious at the moment. (GQ)

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