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  • WHERE I WORK

Remote controller

Hector Aguilar-Carreno is working from home to direct his team’s promising work on a COVID-19 vaccine.
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  1. Virginia Gewin

    1. Virginia Gewin is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon.

Hector Aguilar-Carreno, an immunologist at Cornell University, working from home during the pandemic

Hector Aguilar-Carreno is a virologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Credit: Jesse Winter for Nature

I research emerging viruses at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York — but I’ve not set foot in my office or laboratory since mid-March, when everything on campus shut down because of the COVID‑19 pandemic. I applied immediately for a permit so that my team could keep working in our lab — but only on antivirals and vaccines for COVID‑19.

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Nature 583, 484 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02073-2

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