Penn scientists Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were named recipients of the 2023 Nobel Prize in medicine.
Katalin Karikó is an adjunct professor of Neurosurgery at University of Pennsylvania and recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in medicine.Katalin Karikó is one of two University of Pennsylvania scientists who on Monday shared the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries about messenger RNA, the genetic foundation of the COVID-19 vaccine.
As an adjunct professor of neurosurgery at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, Karikó has spent decades researching medical uses for mRNA, molecules that carry protein-building instructions to cells.Karikó and Weissman in 2005 discovered how to modify mRNA to instruct cells to build proteins and activate the immune system against a virus.
Karikó later worked at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., and came to Penn in 1989. In a column for ESPN, Francia described her mother’s perseverance and dedication to her work: she sometimes slept under her lab desk in Maryland, rather than commuting home to Philadelphia; she struggled to find grants and, at one point, was demoted, Francia wrote.“No splurges or fancy dinners or anything flashy,” Francia wrote. “Instead, she ate a whole box of Goobers, the chocolate-covered peanuts, all by herself at her desk.
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