Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine got Hungarian biochemist Catalina Kariko and American biochemist Drew Weissman, whose research on the development of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) formed the basis for the creation of drugs for COVID-19. The most famous of them are vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer.
“With their groundbreaking discoveries that fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system, the laureates have contributed to an unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health of our time,” the Nobel press release said. committee.
