PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 20 -- Temple University issued the following news release:
Katalin Karikó is the 13th woman in history to win a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The scientist, who did her postdoctoral work in Temple's Department of Biochemistry, recently returned to campus to talk about the experience during the John von Neumann Series of Pure and Applied Sciences at Temple's Charles Library on March 14.
Karikó, jointly with her research partner Drew Weissman, won the 2023 Nobel Laureate in Medicine for having developed effective mRNA vaccines that laid the groundwork for the COVID-19 vaccine. Their work together, published in seminal studies in 2005, 2008 and 2010, led to a paradigm change in our understanding of...