Katalin Karikó has been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Oct 2, 2023 | News

The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet announced that Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19" (source: https://www.nobelprize.org/).

The Nobel laureate Katalin Karikó will give a talk on October 13, at the jubilee ceremony organized on the occasion of the SZBK's 50th birthday.

The announcement of the awarding of the Nobel Prize can be seen in the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/live/0JP-yDsLc3k?si=P5u-vFV-_8X32LG-

The official press release is available here: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/

Huge congratulations to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for the Nobel Prize!