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If the world is going to find an effective vaccine against covid-19, it will be thanks to a woman. This is demonstrated by the fact that the three major projects currently in the human experimentation phase recognized by the World Health Organization are led by female scientists. The Chinese Chen Wei, the British Sarah Gilbert and the American Kizzmekia Corbett compete to be the mother of the vaccine for this pandemic that has caused devastating effects on health and the world economy.
The three possible future Nobel Prize candidates have fought hard to reach the top of immunological research and their work is now under the spotlight of global hopes. Its studies, linked to different organizations and with the support of leading pharmaceutical companies, have now moved to phase three and are being tested in humans.
HEN WEI, THE GREAT CHINESE HOPE
Chen Wei, who is nicknamed the Terminator of viruses, is the most in the media. An epidemiologist and general in the Chinese Army, she is 54 years old and became known during the SARS epidemic of 2003, thanks to a development of hers that saved thousands of lives among the military: an aerosol gel that prevented people from contracting the disease. Since then, she has been the person most responsible for China's fight against viruses and has also fought against Ebola and anthrax.
Known for her rigor and dedication to work, she is an exception in a shielded country where it is difficult to conduct research outside official channels.
The team he leads has already begun testing a vaccine on humans, in this case, among the Chinese military with the pharmaceutical company CanSino, although it has remained in Phase 2, according to the WHO. Chen Wei signs the study on the results of her as director of a long list of scientists.
Other Chinese pharmaceutical companies, such as SinoPharm or Sinovac, are testing their products outside the borders. SinoPharm in the United Arab Emirates with a local company, and Sinovac, in Brazil. The studies of the latter two have been recognized by the WHO.
KIZZEMEKIA CORBETT, THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MIRROR
Twenty years younger and African American, she is the head of the United States Government scientific team that leads the search for a vaccine for Covid-19 with the pharmaceutical company Moderna. Kizzmekia Corbett, born in a rural town in North Carolina as the oldest of seven children and a name inspired by the series 'Roots', graduated in biology and sociology from the University of Maryland thanks to several scholarships, and began her scientific career studying the consequences of dengue, a hemorrhagic fever, on the ground in Sri Lanka.
Also involved in SARS and MERS, she has always worked in the field of biology and was the discoverer of the role of protein S in the immunological response to the RNA of the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus.
'Doctor Kizzy', as she calls herself on Twitter, where she has more than 48.000 followers and exhibits a very millennial sense of humor that is capable of presenting her scientific achievements with a Kim Kardashian meme. She has become a role model for organizations in favor of the advancement of young African-American women, whom she always tries to inspire to remember who they are and where they want to go.
Praised and elevated to stardom by a tweet from Kamala Harris, the new Democratic candidate for the vice presidency of the United States boasts of her father's teaching of going where love is, to justify her volunteering to help with Covid-19. Very religious, she explained that one of her concerns these days was how to organize an authentic Southern funeral for her aunt, who died from the virus, without putting the rest of the family at risk.
British and redheaded, 58 years old, and very discreet, Dr. Gilbert has been a Nobel candidate for years because she is the author of the universal flu vaccine, which does not need to be altered every year because it stimulates the immune system against seasonal flu. .
A biologist and biochemist, she has worked with one foot in the British pharmaceutical industry, where she created a small company, and with the other at the University of Oxford, where she is a professor and principal investigator and leads a team of 300 researchers.
He began studying malaria and has also dealt with MERS, Ebola and hepatitis B, and his studies for more than a decade have focused on the role of T cells, which if correctly stimulated, do not require an immune response from the organization to stop covid-19, he maintains.
Her husband, like Chen's, gave up his professional career to care for their children, triplets. And the boys, biochemistry students, are now helping her mother by testing the Covid-19 vaccine. One that, like the flu, does not prevent the disease, but does greatly reduce its symptoms so that the patient does not require hospitalization.
And she is so sure that her product works and that it is so necessary, that she has promised British deputies that she could have it ready this fall. At the moment, her children are fine.
