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2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Award
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó (born 1955) and Drew Weissman (born 1959) "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19".[2][3]
Laureates
Katalin Karikó
Main article: Katalin Karikó
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.
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This company, a division of BioNTech, commercialized mRNA vaccines at a global scale.
Drew Weissman
Main article: Drew Weissman
Drew Weissman was born on September 7, 1959, in Lexington, Massachusetts[6] and received a Ph.D.
in 1987 at Boston University.[7]