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Developing the COVID-19 Vaccines with 2023 Nierenberg Prize Winner Katalin Karikó

Developing the COVID-19 Vaccines with 2023 Nierenberg Prize Winner Katalin Karikó

Update: 2024-07-05
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Nobel Laureate and biochemist Katalin Karikó's groundbreaking work on COVID-19 vaccines earned her the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2023, alongside co-collaborator Drew Weissman. She's also the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's 2023 recipient of the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. Karikó, an adjunct professor of neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania, is best known for her research on messenger RNA — the genetic material that tells our bodies how to make proteins — and the development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Karikó and Weissman invented the modified mRNA technology used in Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s vaccines to prevent COVID-19 infection. In this program, Karikó talks about the progress and development of mRNA over the past six decades. Karikó will discuss the journey from the discovery of mRNA in 1961 to its groundbreaking milestone as the first FDA-approved mRNA product in the form of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in 2021. Series: "Science in the Public Interest" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39337]
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Developing the COVID-19 Vaccines with 2023 Nierenberg Prize Winner Katalin Karikó

Developing the COVID-19 Vaccines with 2023 Nierenberg Prize Winner Katalin Karikó

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