Nobel Prize 2023: Scientists who made Covid vaccine get Nobel Prize for Medicine

Internationaldesk:
Scientists Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, who developed the mRNA vaccine to stop the Covid-19 pandemic, have received the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Through this vaccine, these two scientists changed the thinking of the whole world. Scientists around the world were able to understand more about the actions and reactions of the immune system in the body.
Katelyn Carricko was born in 1955 in Jolnok, Hungary. She did her PhD from Jeged University in 1982. After this he completed post-doctoral fellowship at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. After this she completed her post-doctoral research at Temple University, Philadelphia. Then she became an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. After 2013, Caitlin became the Senior Vice President of BioNTech RNA Pharmaceutical Company. During this time in 2021, she developed the mRNA vaccine for Corona during the Covid pandemic.
Drew Weisman was born in Massachusetts in 1959. He obtained PhD and MD degrees from Boston University in 1987. After this, he continued clinical training at Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In 1997, Weizmann formed his own research group. He started research at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, he is the director of Penn Institute of RNA Innovations.