Cosalane is undergoing preclinical development. Expertise includes knowledge of flu viruses. Has written for newspapers and worked with television in these areas. Member of American Society of Microbiology, American Society of Virology, and International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research. Expertise in areas of viruses and immunology.
Research focuses on how antibodies kill viruses and the structure of various viral components.
Also using crystallography with electron microscopy to probe the structure of several togaviruses, a family of viruses responsible for several tropical diseases, such as yellow fever and dengue. In 1985, his group became the first to solve the structure of an animal virus when it mapped the three-dimensional structure of a common cold virus, making it possible to study surface features and interactions of the virus. In 1986, his team pinpointed the site in a cold virus where anti-viral agents bind and work to prevent the virus from reproducing. In 1998, his team solved the structure of a receptor that is used by the common cold virus to enter and infect human cells. These proteins are responsible for binding and fusing the virus to target cell membranes.