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September 23, 2020 11 mins

🟦Welcome to SciSection! Joining us in today's interview is our special guest Dr. Arinjay Banerjee, a postdoctoral researcher at McMaster University who was a member of the team that isolated the novel coronavirus 🥼! We'll be learning about his career as a virologist studying bats and coronaviruses, a journey that started six years before the COVID-19 outbreak; his involvement in isolating the novel coronavirus, as well as his current research moving forward and how he hopes to help prevent future pandemics 🧪.

🟨Journalist: Anna Yang

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