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The Nobel laureates behind mRNA COVID vaccines
More than one million people died just in the U.S. as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that broke out in 2020. But a scientific miracle – a vaccine r...
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2023 Nobel Prize winner Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, reflects on the value of basic science research
The laureate discusses the groundbreaking work that led to COVID-19 vaccines, why he persisted with RNA research despite repeated setbacks, and the va...
Article
Editing Stem Cells In Vivo: A Major Stride in Gene Therapy for Blood Disorders
By decorating lipid nanoparticles with a cell-specific surface marker, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania were able to edit haematopoieti...
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 was awarded jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside ba...
Penn Medicine
A Delayed Heroes’ Welcome: Penn mRNA Scientists Karikó and Weissman Continue to Receive Long-Awaited Accolades
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman’s key mRNA discoveries more than 15 years earlier made COVID vaccines possible. Now the global public has opportuniti...
Penn Medicine
Penn Medicine and CHOP Researchers Develop “In Vivo” RNA-based Gene Editing Model for Blood Disorders
In proof-of-concept paper, researchers show that gene editing tools can be delivered via lipid nanoparticles, which would reduce cost and increase acc...
Penn Medicine
Penn Scientists Develop 20-Subtype mRNA Flu Vaccine to Protect Against Future Flu Pandemics
Promising results in animal models help pave the way for clinical trials
Lasker Foundation
Shots Heard Around the World, Lasker Foundation 75th Anniversary Newsletter
Learn about the Lasker Laureates who developed vaccines that benefit billions of people, sparing much of the world's population from a rogue's gallery...
Penn Today
Five from Penn elected to National Academy of Medicine
They are among 100 new Academy members this year, one of the highest honors in health and medicine.
Philadelphia Inquirer
COVID boosters take aim just at omicron. This Penn lab is going after coronaviruses the world hasn’t seen yet.
RNA pioneer Drew Weissman is working on vaccines to protect against multiple coronaviruses.
Penn Medicine
Behind the Scenes in the Lab and the Future of mRNA Research
“The scientists and students in my lab are continuing to help us build further understanding of mRNA vaccines and create mRNA vaccines for a variety o...
Penn Medicine
University of Pennsylvania’s First NFT Commemorates mRNA Research
The historic scientific breakthrough at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania that helped lead the world’s fight against C...
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Drew Weissman and Katalín Karikó, the scientists who saved thousands of lives thanks to the covid vaccine
They started working together more than 20 years ago. They modified messenger RNA and their discovery made it possible to have vaccines against covid-...
NBC New York
‘We Were Not Giving Up:' Meet the Duo Who Invented the mRNA Tech for COVID Vaccines
Two researchers, Dr. Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman, were awarded the Ross Prize this year for their decades-long effort in the mRNA technology ...
Science
Better fat bubbles could power a new generation of mRNA vaccines
New lipid delivery systems aim to improve potency and reduce side effects
Warren Alpert Foundation
2022 Warren Alpert Prize Honors mRNA Research that Enabled the Design of COVID-19 Vaccines
The 2022 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to five scientists for transformational discoveries into the biology of mRNA, for its modific...
International Vaccine Institute
Dr. Tore Godal, Profs. Drew Weissman & Katalin Karikó honored with first IVI – SK bioscience Park MahnHoon Award
“These three vaccine pioneers have advanced global public health by accelerating the delivery of vaccines in low-income countries, and the science of...
Science
CAR T cells produced in vivo to treat cardiac injury
Science: In vivo generation of CAR T cells may hold promise as a therapeutic platform to treat various diseases.
NumismaticNews
Commemorating the Discovery Forming the Basis for mRNA Vaccines
NumismaticNews: COVID-19 vaccines using messenger RNA (mRNA) played a key role in containing and overcoming the global pandemic. International coopera...
Scientific American
Messenger RNA Therapies Are Finally Fulfilling Their Promise. By Drew Weissman
Scientific American: Messenger RNA Therapies Are Finally Fulfilling Their Promise Instructing our cells to make specific proteins could control influ...