Dr. Karikó shares the prize with Drew Weissman, for their discovery of nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines.
She is the 13th woman to have won the Nobel Prize in medicine since the founding of the award in 1901.
Her biography is one of the most inspiring stories I've ever read.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10/01/katalin-kariko-covid-vaccines/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-mrna-kariko.html
(I wonder if Penn will bump her up to full professor now. 😏)
https://msmagazine.com/2023/09/14/katalin-kariko-covid-19-mrna-vaccine-women-science/
Edit: https://twitter.com/mattiekahn/status/1708830042627743826
https://www.glamour.com/story/katalin-kariko-biontech-women-of-year-2021
Lol, I love her.