Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA technology that paved the way for the groundbreaking COVID-19 vaccines.
Healthcare workers get vaccinated against COVID-19 during the launch of the bivalent Pfizer vaccine at the FilOil EcoOil Centre in San Juan on June 22, 2023.STOCKHOLM – Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA technology that paved the way for the groundbreaking COVID-19 vaccines.
While the prizewinning research dates back to 2005, the first vaccines to use the mRNA technology were those made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna against Covid-19. “Unfortunately, five years ago she passed at the age of 89. She might be listening from above,” Kariko said. Kariko and Weissman discovered that one of the four building blocks of the synthetic mRNA was at fault – and they could overcome the problem by swapping it for a modified version.
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