Matt Miller Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD, (left) and Sean Whelan, PhD, collaborate on research into the virus that causes COVID-19. Early in the pandemic, they cooperated to build a laboratory where the novel coronavirus could be studied. A new episode of our podcast, “Show Me the Science,” has been posted. At present, these podcast episodes are highlighting research and patient care on the Washington University Medical Campus as our scientists and clinicians confront the COVID-19 pandemic. Even before the first case of COVID-19 was reported in the United States, Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD, the Herbert S. Gasser Professor of Medicine, started setting the stage with Sean Whelan, PhD, the Marvin A. Brennecke Distinguished Professor of Molecular Microbiology, for scientists at the university to study the virus. Whelan had just arrived in St. Louis to begin his new role as head of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and didn’t even have an operational laboratory when the two scientists jumped into the breach and started work to equip and certify a Biosafety Level III laboratory, where researchers could study SARS-CoV-2.