Scientists Behind COVID Vaccines Win Nobel Prize in Medicine

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Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman won the award for their groundbreaking research in mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes to Scientists Behind mRNA COVID Vaccines

The award was given to Katalin Karikó, a professor at Sagan’s University in Hungary and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Drew Weissman, who performed his prizewinning research together with Karikó at the University of Pennsylvania. Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam, part of the panel that chose the winners, said of their work that “in terms of saving lives, especially in the early phase of the pandemic, it was very important.”

Nobel announcements continue with the physics prize on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday and the economics award on Oct. 9.

 

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