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A Commission for Qualified Evaluation of the COVID-19 Infection and Dissemination of the Latest Science-based Information Established

23 03 2020 On 19 March 2020, a commission of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences for qualified evaluation of the COVID-19 infection and for dissemination of the latest science-based information about the virus was established and approved at a meeting of the Division of Biological, medical, and Geosciences of the Academy.

Composition of the commission:
Chair: Vytautas Usonis (vytautas.usonis@mf.vu.lt), professor at the Clinic of Children’s Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University.
General coordination, COVID-19 in children’s population, COVID-19 vaccines.
Commission coordinators, members of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences: Kęstutis Sasnauskas (kestutis.sasnauskas@ibt.vu.lt), Rūta Dubakienė (ruta.dubakiene@mf.vu.lt).
Members of the commission and fields of their activity:
Assoc. Prof. Dr Sigita Burokienė (sigita.burokiene@mf.vu.lt) – an associate professor at the Clinic of Children’s Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, an expert of the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Medicines and vaccines for the treatment and prevention of COVID-19.
Assoc. Prof. Dr Tomas Kačergius (tomas.kacergius@mf.vu.lt) – an associate professor at the Department of Physiology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Laboratory medicine of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University. COVID-19 virusology.
Prof. Dr Vytautas Kasiulevičius (vytautas.kasiulevicius@mf.vu.lt) – Vice-Dean of the medical Faculty, Vilnius University. Clinical aspects of COVID-19.
Prof. Dr Aurelija Žvirblienė (aurelija.zvirbliene@ibt.vu.lt) – head of the Immunology and Cell Biology Department at the Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius University Life Sciences Centre. COVID-19.

Information of the Division of Biological, Medical, and Geosciences