Pavlo Gilchuk, Sr. Staff Scientist at the Crowe Laboratory at Vanderbilt; Robert Carnahan, the associate director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center and Rachel Nargi, laboratory manager for the Crowe Laboratory. Photos: Whitten Sabbatini

Inside a Lab Developing a Coronavirus Treatment

We may not have been prepared for a pandemic, but these scientists were

Robert Carnahan woke up at 5 a.m. to no fewer than 20 voicemails. Each message was more frantic than the last, but they all repeated the same thing: Carnahan, associate director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, had to hop on the phone — right now! — and track down…