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Pioneers of mRNA COVID vaccines win medicine Nobel

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman laid the groundwork for immunizations that were rolled out during the pandemic at record-breaking speed.
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This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to biochemist Katalin Karikó and immunologist Drew Weissman for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

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Nature 622, 228-229 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03046-x

Additional reporting by Katharine Sanderson.

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  1. Karikó, K., Buckstein, M., Ni, H. & Weissman, D. Immunity 23, 165–175 (2005).

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