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03/10/23 06:06 AM IST

Nobel Prize 2023 in Medicine

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  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2023 has been awarded to Katalin Kariko, and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against Covid-19.
About Katalin Kariko
  • Katalin Karik, who was born in 1955 in Szolnok, is Professor at Szeged University and an Adjunct Professor at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Meanwhile, Drew Weissman is a Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research and Director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovations.
  • So far, 113 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have been awarded since 1901 of which 12 have been given to women.
  • The youngest medicine laureate ever is Frederick G. Banting, who was awarded the 1923 Medicine Prize for the discovery of insulin at the age of 32.
  • Drew Weissman was born in 1959 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA.
  • He received his MD, PhD degrees from Boston University in 1987. He did his clinical training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School and postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health.
  • In 1997, Weissman established his research group at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • He is the Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research and Director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovations.
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