Arya News Agency -A scientist who developed Russia’s Sputnik coronavirus vaccine during the Covid-19 pandemic has been appointed head of Moscow’s Gamaleya research centre, the centre said in a statement yesterday.
The statement said that Denis Logunov, 47, will replace Alexander Gintsburg as director of the centre, Russia’s leading institution for vaccine research, named after Russian Soviet scientist Nikolai Gamaleya.
Logunov led the group of scientists who created and tested Sputnik, which was then widely used for Covid-19 vaccination in Russia and other countries, including Argentina, Mexico, Hungary and Serbia.