Katalin Karikó

Sunday, January 01, 2023

Katalin Karikó was born in Hungary in 1955 and earned her PhD at the University of Szeged in 1982. Karikó immigrated to the United States in 1985 to work as a postdoctoral researcher at Temple University. Karikó is a biochemist that led the discovery in nucleotide base changes that would later help in the development of a vaccine for Covid-19. Karikó won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2023.