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Nobel Prize awarded to mRNA vaccine researchers

October 5, 2023
|In Show all, External News
|By Alice Black

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their role in the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

Read about their work at The Nobel Prize: Discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

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