A prominent Russian scientist working on a vaccine against COVID-19 was found dead with a stab after falling out of the St. Petersburg window, according to reports.
Alexander “Sasha” Kagansky, 45, was wearing underwear when he died from his 14th-floor apartment, according to Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets.
The scientist was also stabbed, police said.
Police believe there was a fight before Kagansky fell from the building, reports said.
Russian police say they are investigating Kagansky’s death as a possible homicide and questioning a 45-year-old man as a possible 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, according to the medium.
He recently worked as the director of the Center for Genomic and Regenerative Medicine at the Federal University of the Far East in Russia.
He had been working on developing a coronavirus vaccine, e2news said.
A neighbor found Kagansky’s body on Zamshin Street, the report said.