Dr. T. Ryan Gregory
Dr. T. Ryan Gregory

Dr. T. Ryan Gregory, an evolutionary biologist in the College of Biological Science, discussed with Fortune Well a new COVID variant thought to be driving a surge of cases in India. 

Gregory called the rapid increase in the new variant XBB.1.16, or Arcturus, “concerning,” noting that with India has a hefty population immunity from prior infections. 

A professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, Gregory researches large-scale genome evolution and integrative genomics and evolutionary biology. 

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