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The award was given to Katalin Karikó, a professor at Sagan's University in Hungary and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Drew.
Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and could be used in the future to create other shots. Katalin Karikó is a professor at Sagan’s University in Hungary and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Drew Weissman the director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovations at the University of Pennsylvania. The panel said they were awarded the prize Monday for “their groundbreaking findings, which have fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system.”