Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023

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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/
2023-10-02
Press release
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award
the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 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.
The discoveries by the two Nobel Laureates were critical for developing effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 during the pandemic that began in early 2020. Through their groundbreaking findings, which have fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system, the laureates contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times. 


This might be one of the rare times when we ordinary people can see the value of the work of those receiving the Nobel Prize have done.