Paul Leading the Fight Against Killer Viruses
Original article from: Lurgan Mail; Posted on August 26, 2014
Paul Duprex is making waves across the pond as a virus-taming scientist, having started his journey in King’s Park Primary School.
The Lurgan native is currently an associate professor at Boston University, USA, where he is conducting research on viruses, following a life-long fascination with science.
During his King’s Park days, Paul recalls nature walks in Lurgan Park where he studied tadpoles in the lake, and the ‘chaos’ in the classroom on Monday morning after the tadpoles had spent the weekend transforming into frogs.
As a student at Lurgan College, Paul first realised his curiosity for microbiology, after experimenting with his fellow classmates. Paul would take bacteria from his classmates’ mouths, grow it in petri dishes in an old incubator, and attempted to find out which toothpaste was best at killing the bacteria.