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Katalin Karikó was born on January 17, 1955, in Szolnok, Hungary. [4] From the University of Szeged, she received a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1982. [5] From 2013 to 2022, she was associated with BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals, first as a vice president and promoted to senior vice president in 2019.
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-00-215173-1. Porter, Roy, ed. The Cambridge History of Medicine (2006); 416pp; excerpt and text search. Porter, Roy, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine (2001) excerpt and text search excerpt and text search
This list of medicine awards is an index to articles about notable awards for contributions to medicine, the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. The list is organized by region and country of the organization giving the award, but the awards may be available to people from around ...
[37] [38] The 1903 prize was awarded to Niels Ryberg Finsen, the first Faroese laureate, "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science". [39] [40] He died within a year after receiving the prize at the age of ...
As the year comes to a close, experts from the Alzheimer's Association reflect on some of the hopeful advances in diagnosis, treatment and risk management that have been made in 2024.
Year Image Laureate Nationality Rationale Ref 1901 Emil von Behring (1854–1917) Germany "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths"
[4] [5] He was the recipient of numerous prestigious awards such as the 2010 Shaw Prize in Life Sciences and Medicine, the 2010 Prince of Asturias Prize for Technical and Scientific Research, the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, [6] and the 2020 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience (together with Patapoutian) [7] and the 2020 BBVA Foundation ...
In the fields of medicine, biotechnology, and pharmacology, drug discovery is the process by which new candidate medications are discovered. [ 1 ] Historically, drugs were discovered by identifying the active ingredient from traditional remedies or by serendipitous discovery, as with penicillin .