A 2022 Hard Boiled Detective Story

Cornell Woolrich stand aside

Professor who devised improved lipid nanoparticle technologies to deliver mRNA was found stabbed to death in his home.

George Mason University bioengineering professor Michael Buschmann and a team of scientific collaborators have devised improved lipid nanoparticle technologies to deliver mRNA that could make mRNA vaccines such as the COVID-19 vaccines less costly, with fewer side-effects and more available worldwide.


Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said Buschmann died of "several" stab wounds.

Police initially were notified after callers reported seeing a man walking along Babcock Road covered in blood early Wednesday evening. The man was found to have multiple lacerations to his neck, Davis said. The wounded man was taken to the hospital, where he was identified as Axel Buschmann.

Officers then went to his home around 5:30 p.m. on a welfare check, looked in the windows, and saw a man on the ground. Police entered the home and found Dr. Michael Buschmann. He was pronounced dead at the home.

Axel Buschmann is currently in the hospital and will be taken into custody when he is released, Davis said.

"We''re here under terrible circumstances," said 2nd Lt. Erin Weeks of the homicide division, during Thursday''s news conference.
https://archives.history.ac.uk/heislercollection/33.html