Black Excellence: Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizzmekia_Corbett-Helaire
Kizzmekia “Kizzy” Shanta Corbett-Helaire (née Corbett, born January 26, 1986)[1] is an American viral immunologist. She is an assistant professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Shutzer Assistant Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute since June 2021, and was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar in 2023.[2][3][4][5]
She joined Harvard following six years at the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIAID NIH) based in Bethesda, Maryland.[6][7] She earned a PhD in microbiology and immunology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) in 2014.[8]
Appointed to the VRC in 2014, Corbett-Helaire was a postdoctoral scientist of the VRC’s COVID-19 Team,[9] with research efforts aimed at COVID-19 vaccines.[10][11] In February 2021, Corbett-Helaire was highlighted in Time’s “Time100 Next” list[12] under the category of Innovators, with a profile written by Anthony Fauci.[13]