2023

She was met with resistance, demoted and eventually forced to leave academia – but Katalin Karikó never lost focus, doubling-down on her work to harness mRNA for new vaccines and therapies. Karikó’s Nobel Prize-awarded discovery enabled the development of effective vaccines against COVID-19, offering protection to millions of people. 

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Biographical

A Journey Guided by Questions Every serious endeavor should start with a proper question. What is worthy of being shared with the rest of the world in a biographical sketch of someone largely unknown before October 3, 2023? To be honest, even after serious deliberations, I didn’t find a convincing answer. What follows is an…

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Podcast

Nobel Prize Conversations “When I’m writing very well, then I don’t have to write. It’s just writing itself, if that’s a possible way to say it” Is the creative process different in the fields of art, literature and music? In a podcast conversation, literature laureate Jon Fosse speaks about all three fields and how they…

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