Ethan Green (’19), an army second lieutenant and doctoral candidate at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, is working on the effort to develop a vaccine for the COVID-19, the only active-duty military member on the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) team in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is working on harvesting proteins found in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus so they can be used for developing a vaccine against the disease it causes, COVID-19.
The nature of what I’m doing, it’s an amazing opportunity, and I thank God every day that I’m doing it. It makes me really sad that I have to – I’d much rather be bored out of my mind in the lab – but it has filled me with this immense purpose.” – Ethan Green (’19) stated in a March 23 interview with Military.com.
WRAIR is developing a protein vaccine, which targets a portion of the virus — its protein shell — that includes the nubs seen in photos of the virus and several other types of protein. Green, who had been working on a universal influenza vaccine before being pulled to assist with the coronavirus vaccine effort, is optimistic that there will be a solution.
You may read more of the Military.com article written by Patricia Kime here.