What's it like to work on J&J's coronavirus vaccine? For one scientist, it's social distancing in the lab, late nights at home

Rinke Bos is a scientist. But under the bright spotlight of COVID-19, the Johnson & Johnson immunologist has also become a media spokesperson, an online video cast member and one of the many pharma researchers who symbolize hope for the world.

Bos leads the J&J vaccine discovery team of about a dozen researchers in the small town of Leiden in her native country of the Netherlands. The team first began designing potential vaccines after the full RNA sequence for SARS-CoV-2 was released publicly in January. They researched options, performed preclinical testing and corrected designs to narrow down candidates.