On Monday, Katalin Karikó won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. Her research with Drew Weissman, with whom she shares the prize, laid the foundation for the Covid-19 vaccines developed by BioNTech-Pfizer and Moderna.
Karikó’s career serves as a lesson in perseverance. Her work on mRNA, the genetic messenger that sends DNA instructions to make specific proteins, was often dismissed. During her time at the University of Pennsylvania she had trouble securing grant funding and bounced from lab to lab.
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