This young, Black, female scientist who graduated from UNC leads efforts to find a COVID-19 vaccine

Posted Jun 30, 2020
As a teenager growing up in Hillsborough, Kizzmekia Corbett had never seen a Black scientist before. Then she walked into a lab at UNC one summer, met Albert Russell, a doctoral student, and for the first time believed she could be one. Now, at 34, Corbett is the scientific lead for the government’s search for a coronavirus vaccine at the National Institutes of Health. (Greensboro News & Record)

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