A famous Russian scientist working on the COVID-19 vaccine has been found dead with a stab wound after falling out of his window in St. Petersburg, according to news reports.
Alexander “Sasha” Kagansky, 45, was in his underwear when he fell to his death from his 14th-floor apartment, according to Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets.
The scientist also suffered stab injuries, police said.
Police believe there was a scuffle before Kagansky fell from the building, reports said.
Russian police say they are investigating Kagansky’s death as a possible murder and are questioning a 45-year-old man as a suspect, e2news.com said.
Kagansky, best known for his work on cancer research, was an assistant professor in Vladivostok and had spent 13 years working in Edinburgh, Scotland, until 2017, the service said. out.
Most recently he served as director of the Center for Genomic and Regenerative Medicine at the Federal University of Far Russia.
He had been working on developing a vaccine against the coronavirus, e2news said.
Kagansky’s body was found by a neighbor on Zamshin Street, the report said.