International – Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to pair of scientists behind mRNA COVID-19 vaccines

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries that enabled the development of effective messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines against COVID-19.

The prize was selected by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute medical university and comes with about $1m for the pair to share between them.

The Nobel Prize committee said: « 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.”…