Kizzmekia Corbett News & Bio
| Name: | Kizzmekia Corbett | | Hometown: | Hillsborough, NC | | High School: | Orange | | Born: | January 26, 1986 (38) | | Notes: | Immunologist, COVID-19 Vaccine Development |
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Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, who worked on Moderna vaccine, cements her place in historyDr. 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...
Tue Jun 14, 2022
How this 'little ole girl' from North Carolina became a lead Covid-19 vaccine developerShe’s a globally renowned scientist and Covid-19 vaccine developer, yet Kizzmekia Corbett, Ph.D., modestly describes herself as a “little ole girl” from a small North...
Sun Apr 10, 2022
Immunologist, UNC alum Kizzmekia Corbett’s work represents the best of what science offers
A leading researcher on coronavirus spike proteins and mRNA vaccine technology long before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, Kizzmekia Corbett’s work proved critical to developing successful...
Sat Mar 5, 2022
NC scientist, UNC alum Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett named among Time magazine's heroes of the year
Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, a Hillsborough native who helped develop Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, has been named one of Time magazine's Heroes of the Year. Corbett was...
Mon Dec 20, 2021
Commentary: NIH's Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett is my COVID-19 heroine
Experts on television issued gloomy predictions that it would take two years or longer to create a COVID vaccine. At a lab deep inside the...
Tue Jun 22, 2021