Glad to see Katalin Kariko won. A lot of people told her she couldn’t do her experiments and she just kept at it. Ten years ago she was kicked out, fired for keeping at it
So glad BioNTech picked her up and saw the potential in their research. Good to see that it payed off so well and I hope their continuing plans to fight cancer with the technology is met with success.
BtW, Spare a thought for Penn’s PR team today trying to work out what to say about the Medicine Nobel Prize going to one of their professors and another professor they kicked out for “not doing faculty-level research.”
Glad to see Katalin Kariko won. A lot of people told her she couldn’t do her experiments and she just kept at it. Ten years ago she was kicked out, fired for keeping at it
So glad BioNTech picked her up and saw the potential in their research. Good to see that it payed off so well and I hope their continuing plans to fight cancer with the technology is met with success.
Here’s a link to an SA article about all of it…
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-mrna-pioneer-discusses-how-her-work-led-to-the-covid-vaccines/
BtW, Spare a thought for Penn’s PR team today trying to work out what to say about the Medicine Nobel Prize going to one of their professors and another professor they kicked out for “not doing faculty-level research.”
That’s probably the most uplifting part about the award - such amazing persistence.