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Indian American scientist the two main vaccines in the US and about 11/19/2021Friday.“Nightmare, horror, bar-
named primary contributor to 164 million doses of it have been given so barity and catastrophe. And that’s what
invention of Moderna’s Covid far in the US, according to the Centers for happened that night,” said her cousin Mo-
Disease Control.In addition, millions of hit Bellani, who had been to the concert
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF vaccine scientist of Indian people have been vaccinated in Europe and with her and her sister.
Ravindra Dave A origin has been iden- elsewhere with the Moderna vaccine.The She was the ninth victim in the incident
[email protected] tified by Moderna as the other main vaccine used in the US is the that took place during a performance by
primary contributor to its Pfizer-Biontech, which was developed in rapper Travis Scott at the Astroworld Fes-
Marketing Director Covid-19 vaccine.A filing Germany and uses mRNA.A third vaccine tival at a stadium.Doctors had placed her
& Vice President by the company for its from Johson & Johnson is also used in the on a ventilator after a chaotic evacuation
Devyani Dave patent application for the US. It was developed by J&J’s Jansen Phar- from the stadium in a bid to save her, but
[email protected] coronavirus vaccine using the revolution- maceutical, whose global head of research she died on the fifth day.
ary RNA technique listed Pune-educated and development is Mathai Mammen.The Her family said that they were donating her
Contributor bioinformatics scientist Mihir Metkar as patent document naming Metkar as the organs.
Jagruti the “first named inventor”, a designation “first named inventor” was filed on behalf “Bharti is love,” her mother Karishma Sha-
[email protected] that usually recognizes the primary con- of Moderna by an intellectual property law hani said.Breaking down at the news con-
tributor to the invention.He is also listed as firm asserted that the three NIH scientists ference she said amid tears, “What hap-
Chief Designer and one of the inventors in two other Covid-19 who collaborated with them should not be pened to my blessing now? I want my baby
Composer vaccine patent applications by Moderna considered co-inventors as the NIH has back.”This was the first time that Bharti
Ruchir Pandya to the US Patent Office.Moderna’s is of asked. Shahani, who is a final year electronics en-
[email protected] the new class of vaccines that use what is If the NIH scientists are recognized as gineering undergraduate student, had gone
called messenger RNA (mRNA) that cause co-inventors, the NIH and the government to a concert. According to the Shahani
Accounts Associate the body to create some proteins similar to may be entitled to receive a share of royal- family’s lawyer, she had been dropped from
Deepa Shah that in the Covid-19 virus and trigger the ties from the use of the patents and also be a gurney while being evacuated.The lawyer,
[email protected] body’s immune system to make antibodies able to allow others to make the vaccine.An James Lassiter, has filed a $20 million case
that will fight the coronavirus if it invades NGO, Public Citizen, has pointed out in a against the organisers and various people
Do you want the body. (Conventional vaccines use either letter to the head of the NIH that co-own- involved.The Houston Chronicle reported
Rashtradarpan dead viruses or parts of them or a modified ership of the patent “can empower the US delays in reacting to that the tragedy.It was
at home ? version of the gene of a different virus.) government to authorise” other manufac- reported at 9:11 and police declared it a
Metkar’s identification as the “first named turers around the world to use some of mass casualty event at 9:38 p.m., but Travis
We just charge inventor” is in the document filed by Mod- the patents to make the vaccine.The group Scott continued playing for at least 25 more
mailing of erna to dispute the US government’s Na- said that with “huge gaps in global vaccine minutes, the Chronicle said.
$25 per year tional Institutes of Health (NIH) assertion access” the need for the government to ex-
that its scientists should also be credited as ercise control over the vaccine technology Georgia police officer
& Paramhans Desai dies after
Get Free inventors of the vaccine, which was devel- “only grows more urgent”. being shot in line-of-duty;
oped in collaboration with it and with $1.53
Gujarati Learning CD billion provided by the administration of Indian American student suspect dead
Just call office former President Donald Trump under among nine killed in olice officer
the Operation Warp Speed programme to Astroworld tragedy PParamhans De-
Please send your feedback, quickly produce vaccines.Vladimir Pres- sai, 38, who was shot
suggestions at nyak and Guillaume Stewart-Jones are list- when he arrived at a
[email protected] ed after him in the original application for house in McDonough,
the patent.Metkar received his MSc degree Georgia on the eve-
For Advertisement Call: from the Institute of Bioinformatics and ning of November 4 as
(O):770-904-1569 Biotechnology at the Savitribai Phule Pune he tried to make an arrest, has died.
(F):678-615-3186 University and worked at the Indian In- “It is with a saddened and heavy heart that
stitute of Science Education and Research the Henry County Law Enforcement Fam-
Rashtra Darpan: (IISER) in Pune as a project assistant be- ily along with Henry County Government
fore coming to the United States, according n Indian American student has died announce the passing of Police Officer
GLOBAL MALL to his LinkedIn profile. Aafter being trampled at a rap music Paramhans Desai,” said a statement posted
5675, Jimmy carter Blvd., He did his PhD at the RNA Therapeutics concert in Houston, Texas, when the crowd on the police department’s Facebook page.
Suite 535, Norcross Institute at the University of Massachusetts estimated at 50,000 jostled.Bharti Shahani, “Officer Desai succumbed to his injuries
GA. 30071 Medical School in Worcester and worked 22, died on 11/10/2021 Wednesday from with his family by his side today at approx-
there as a post-doctoral fellow, before join- injuries she suffered in the incident on imately 9:55 p.m.”
www.rashtradarpan.com ing Moderna in 2018, the profile said.In a 11/06/2021 Saturday, her family said at a “Officer Desai is survived by his wife and
[email protected] separate patent filing, Moderna listed Sun- news conference on 11/11/2021 Thursday. two young children. Officer Desai con-
ny Himansu, who has an MBBS degree, as She was the ninth person to die from in- tinues to serve, even in his passing, by
one of the two inventors of the Betacorona- juries at the concert. A nine-year-old boy donating multiple organs which will save
virus Vaccine.Moderna’s vaccine is one of was fighting for his life on a ventilator on numerous lives. Please continue to keep

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