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Hungarian and US scientists win medicine Nobel for Covid-19 vaccine discoveries




Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Karolinska Institute Nobel Committee and Nobel Assembly, announces Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman as laureates of this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine during a press conference, in Stockholm October 2, 2023. — Reuters pic
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Monday, 02 Oct 2023 9:20 PM MYT
STOCKHOLM, Oct 2 — Hungarian scientist Katalin Kariko and US colleague Drew Weissman, who met in line for a photocopier before making mRNA molecule discoveries that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines, won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Medicine today.
“The laureates contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times,” the Swedish award-giving body said in the latest accolade for the pair.
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The prize, among the most prestigious in the scientific world, was selected by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute medical university and comes with 11 million Swedish crowns (about RM4.7 million) to share between them.
Kariko, a former senior vice president and head of RNA protein replacement at German biotech firm BioNTech, is a professor at the University of Szeged in Hungary and adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania.