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Karolina Corin, PhD, Staff Scientist

Karolina Corin, PhD, is a staff scientist working on our investigations into the origins of COVID-19 and biosafety. Karolina earned her MS in mechanical engineering and PhD in biological engineering from MIT. She completed a postdoc at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and worked as a staff scientist at UCLA before joining U.S. Right to Know. ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3080-5742.

Karolina has authored or co-authored 17 peer-reviewed scientific articles that have been published in journals such as PNAS , Protein Science, EMBO, and the Journal of Molecular Biology. She has also served as a scientific peer-reviewer, holds two patents, and published pieces on long Covid in children in the LA Times and Today’s Parent. 

Much of Karolina’s research has focused on the expression, solubilization, folding, structure, and stabilization of membrane proteins, a class of proteins involved in many diseases that are notoriously difficult to study. She developed a cell-free expression platform allowing the largest number of GPCRs to date to be expressed, and demonstrated that novel surfactants like peptide detergents can be used to express, solubilize, and stabilize membrane proteins. As part of a team, she was the first to express, purify, and characterize the ligand-binding of insect olfactory receptors, and performed pioneering experiments demonstrating that a simple substitution code could be used to make GPCRs soluble without altering their structure or function.

Intrepid ‘virus hunter’ Peter Daszak flies in style

Karolina Corin
June 26, 2023

U.S. funded discovery of close COVID-19 relative at the center of origins controversy

Karolina Corin
June 16, 2023

Could our nation’s newest virus-hunting program cause the next pandemic?

Karolina Corin
May 30, 2023

War, instability, and unrest are overlooked biosafety and biosecurity risks

Karolina Corin
May 1, 2023

Wuhan lab denied BSL4 access for SARS work without clear reasoning

Karolina Corin
February 28, 2023

Controversial coronavirus research may have continued even after NIH pulled funding

Karolina Corin
February 1, 2023

Mongolian labs had serious biosafety and biosecurity failings

Karolina Corin
January 10, 2023

Emails show Wuhan lab collaborator played central role in public messaging about COVID-19 origins

Karolina Corin
December 8, 2022

Preprint: COVID-19 shows ‘fingerprint’ of laboratory engineering

Karolina Corin
October 28, 2022

Senior WHO official expressed doubts that COVID-19 began in wet market

Karolina Corin
August 31, 2022

Pandemic research firm Metabiota struggled with safety and data problems

Karolina Corin
May 19, 2022

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