Interview, December 2023 Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Katalin Karikó on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Katalin Karikó answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – What brought you to science? – What do you enjoy most about science?…

Announcement of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by Professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Assembly, on 2 October 2023. Interview about the awarded work “This can also help us combat non-infectious diseases, like cancer” Immediately after the announcement, Professor Qiang Pan Hammarström, member of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, was…

Scientific background Discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 When SARS-CoV-2 emerged in late 2019 and rapidly spread to all parts of the world, few thought that vaccines could be developed in time to help curb the increasing global disease burden. Yet, several vaccines were approved in…

English Press release 2023-10-02 has today decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 The discoveries by the two Nobel Laureates were critical for developing effective mRNA vaccines…

Swedish Pressmeddelande 2023-10-02 har idag beslutat att Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin år 2023 skall tilldelas Katalin Karikó och Drew Weissman för deras upptäckter rörande nukleosidbasmodifieringar som möjliggjorde utveckling av effektiva mRNA-vacciner mot covid-19 De belönade upptäckterna blev avgörande för utvecklingen av effektiva mRNA-vacciner mot covid-19 under den pandemi som drabbade världen i början av…

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B y now, I have lived in Northern California for more than half my life, but I remain a native New Yorker in temperament and humor. Born in 1955, I grew up in a seaside Brooklyn neighborhood − immortalized by Neil Simon’s play ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’ – that’s been a landing pad for Eastern European…

1936 Nobel Prize Award ceremony, 10 December 1936. From left: Medicine laureates Otto Loewi and Sir Henry Dale, chemistry laureate Peter Debye, physics laureates Carl David Anderson and Victor F. Hess. Professor Walter Rudolf Hess with his wife arrives to Bromma Airport, Sweden, for the Nobel Week, 6 December 1949.