Indian-Born Scientist Joins Researching Team To Find A Cure For COVID-19

As the group is trying to deal with the rising number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, scientists are racing to find a cure for the virus.

A team of Canadian researchers from McMaster University, the University of Toronto, and Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital, is also in the quest to find a vaccine. Among the researchers is Arinjay Banerjee, an Indian-born scientist. According to Banerjee, the team has succeeded in isolating the virus.

The isolation of the virus has raised hopes for a vaccine. The researchers worked on samples that were taken from two patients. And in a secure facility, they isolated and propagated the virus to study the behavior of the virus, thus finding the solutions to the alarming pandemic.

Arinjay is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University. His specialization is coronaviruses and bats.

He is glad that he can contribute his effort in understanding and controlling the outbreak.

Researcher fellow Dr. Samira Mubareka who is working at Sunnybrook Hospital as an infectious disease physician and microbiologist says that what their team needs right now to work on solutions to the pandemic is key tools.

Microbiologist Rob Kozak at Toronto University congratulated his co-researchers saying that researchers from prestigious institutions had come together to isolate the virus successfully in just a few weeks.

The virus is believed to have come from Wuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which is a trading place for wildlife. After the disease broke out, people started blaming the Chinese for consuming odd creatures such as bats, frogs, and snakes. And according to researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the genome sequenced taken from seven patients were reportedly 96% identical to coronavirus from bats.

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