Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023

Katalin Karikó

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Prize share: 1/2

Drew Weissman

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 was awarded jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19"

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