The Scientist Who Saved the World
Katalin Karikó tolerated grant application rejections for years and a demotion before she achieved success with the COVID mRNA vaccine.
Henry Oliver • Second Act
In 2023, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, who struggled for years to get a dollar of funding from the NIH, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for a technology that saved millions of lives.
Ezra Klein • Abundance
How we got to mRNA vaccines (and what it was like to work on the idea in the 90s):
https://t.co/wG9BqRbFsv https://t.co/hSdCWQ8mzN