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Nov 18, 2021 · But the story of how scientist Drew Weissman (MED’87, GRS’87) and his research partner Katalin Karikó developed the revolutionary mRNA technology that powers the world’s most effective COVID-19 vaccines was a much slower burn—one that easily could have flickered out.
Oct 2, 2023 · Drew Weissman was born in 1959 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. He received his MD, PhD degrees from Boston University in 1987. He received his MD, PhD degrees from Boston University in 1987. He did his clinical training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School and postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of ...
Oct 2, 2023 · “Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman are brilliant researchers who represent the epitome of scientific inspiration and determination. Day after day, Dr. Weissman, Dr. Karikó and their teams worked tirelessly to unlock the power of mRNA as a therapeutic platform, not knowing the way in which their work could serve to meet a big challenge the world would one day face,” said Penn President Liz ...
Oct 2, 2023 · Ewen Callaway &. Miryam Naddaf. Drew Weissman (left) and Katalin Karikó (right). Credit: PixelPro/Alamy. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to biochemist Katalin ...
Oct 2, 2023 · This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for discoveries enabling the creation of a new kind of vaccine, including some of the first ones that protected against COVID-19, the Nobel Assembly announced today.
Oct 2, 2023 · “Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman are brilliant researchers who represent the epitome of scientific inspiration and determination. Day after day, Dr. Weissman, Dr. Karikó and their teams worked tirelessly to unlock the power of mRNA as a therapeutic platform, not knowing the way in which their work could serve to meet a big challenge the ...
Sep 24, 2021 · Messenger RNA innovators Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, the Roberts Family Professor of Vaccine Research in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine, and Katalin Karikó, PhD, an adjunct professor of Neurosurgery at Penn and a senior vice president at BioNTech, are honored with what is widely regarded as America's top biomedical research prize for the ...
