The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to scientists who helped create vaccines against COVID-19.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology was awarded to Katalin Kariko (Hungary) and Drew Weissman (USA) for the discovery of changes in nucleoside backbones, which enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. It was announced by the Nobel Committee of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on Monday, October 2.
It was noted that the discovery of the two Nobel laureates was very important for the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 during the pandemic that began in early 2020.
“With their groundbreaking discoveries that have fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system, the laureates have contributed to an unprecedented pace of vaccine development during the one of the greatest threats to human health of our time,” the Nobel Committee said.
Katalin Kariko was born in 1955 in Szolnok (Hungary). He was vice president and then senior vice president of BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals. Since 2021, he has been a professor at the University of Szeged and an associate professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Drew Weissman was born in 1959 in Lexington (Massachusetts, USA). In 1997, he established his research group at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Weissman is the Roberts Family Professor of Vaccine Research and director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation.
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