How Interdisciplinary Science Can Change the World

An editorial highlighted the chance encounter between Penn’s Nobel Prize-winning scientists Katalin Karikó, PhD, and Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, at a copy machine that gave way to friendship, professional collaboration, and a vaccine platform that’s providing new possibilities of disease treatment and prevention. The pair’s historic work served as an example of what can happen when researchers of different disciplines and backgrounds work together, and they call for more intentional interdisciplinary research.