Karikó was hired by the University of Pennsylvania in 1989 as an adjunct professor and researcher, where she met and began collaborating with Weissman, a professor of medicine at Penn, in 1997.

They spent the next 20-plus years collaborating, "figuring out how to get it to work, how to get a vaccine to function well," Weissman, still a professor at Penn, said in a Monday news conference.

Penn's Drew Weissman, Katalin Karikó win Nobel Prize for creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 02:38. PHILADELPHIA (CBS/AP) -- Two scientists, part of the University of Pennsylvania's ...

For example, BioNTech helps fund Weissman’s research for future infectious disease vaccines, according to the university. But it wasn’t an easy path to success. More than three years since the the ...

University of Pennsylvania researchers Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó have been named the 2022 recipients of the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science for their roles in developing the ...

She was a senior vice president at BioNTech, which partnered with Pfizer to make one of the COVID-19 vaccines. She and Weissman, 64, who is a professor and director of the Penn Institute for RNA ...

Penn Medicine researchers Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were named winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday. Karikó , an adjunct professor of neurosurgery at the Perelman School of ...