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Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries that led to the development of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.
by Gertrud U. Rey On October 2nd, 2023, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet announced the award of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. The decision was based on a series of fundamental discoveries that led to the development of the COVID-19 messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines. Katalin …