Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine, both of which are Penn's historic mRNA vaccine research team.
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| Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman are the recipients of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine. (Photo: penntoday.upenn.edu) |
Katalin Kariko is a Hungarian-born scientist Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman are scientists from the US.
mRNA Vaccine is a Vaccine Against COVID-19
The first mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 was made by Pfizer and Moderna, according to the awarding body.
"The winners contribute to an unprecedented level of vaccine development as one of the greatest threats to human health emerges in modern times," said the jury in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, on Monday (10/02/2023).
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Katalin Kariko is a lecturer at Sagan University in Hungary and a teaching assistant at the University of Pennsylvania. Drew Weissman was a scientist who conducted a joint study with Kariko at the University of Pennsylvania that led them to that victory.
The two men will receive the prize, consisting of a certificate, a gold medal, and a $1 million check, from King Carl XVI Gustaf at an official ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of scientist Alfred Nobel in 1896 who created the award. in his will.
The frontrunners for this year's medical award include Kevan Shokat, an American biologist who discovered how to block the KRAS cancer gene that accounts for one-third of cancers, including difficult-to-treat lung, colon, and pancreatic cancers.
Two American biologists, Stanislas Leibler and Michael Elowitz, were also credited for their discovery of synthetic gene circuits that solidified knowledge of synthetic biology. Their findings allow scientists to redesign organisms by engineering their genes to have new capabilities.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was won last year by Swedish scientist Svante Paabo for his discovery of human evolution that uncovered secrets of Neanderthal DNA that provided important insights into the human immune system, including human susceptibility to severe COVID-19.
The awards for physics will be announced on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday, and literature on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Laureates will be announced on Friday while the Nobel Laureates in Economics on October 9, 2023.