Dr. Jayasri Das Sarma has contributed majorly by aiming to understand the viral-induced neuropathology of meningitis, encephalitis, chronic progressive neuroinflammatory demyelination, and axonal loss, which has long-term progression and mimics certain pathological hallmarks of the human neurological disease Multiple Sclerosis. Her knowledge in the field of β-coronavirology in association with COVID, especially on understanding key mechanisms underlying initiation of infection, viral spread, host immune responses, and related pathogenesis and cell-cell commutation in maintaining homeostasis is highly necessary given the current pandemic situation for designing a test system for screening small molecules with antiviral potentials as well as repurposing drugs for COVID-19.