Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó (born 1955) and Drew Weissman (born 1959) "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19".
The prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The laureates are invited to receive their ...
For their mRNA-related work, Weissman and Karikó were awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, [3] the 2020 Rosenstiel Award, [32] the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, [33] the Albany Medical Center Prize, [34] the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, [35] and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award [36] (also ...
Katalin Karikó's autobiography was published by Crown Publishing Group on 10 October 2023, just days after she won the Nobel Prize. [80] [81] [82] It is titled Breaking Through: My Life in Science. [83] The book became the best-selling non-fiction book in Hungary in 2023, and was awarded the Libri Literary Prize in June 2024. [84]
Two pioneering scientists who created the technology behind life-saving Covid-19 vaccines have won the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology.
This year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their work on mRNA vaccines, a crucial tool in curtailing the spread of Covid-19.
An important field of application are mRNA vaccines. Replacing uridine with pseudouridine to evade the innate immune system was pioneered by Karikó and Weissman in 2005. [15] [16] They won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine as a result of their work. [17]
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman discovered a key step toward making mRNA vaccines, leading to the COVID-19 vaccine and the Nobel Prize.