
“for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”
Katalin Karikó is a Hungarian-American biochemist. She discovered nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines. She shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for these discoveries.
- Field
- Medicine · Molecular Medicine
- Lifespan
- 1955–