Monday, January 23, 2023

Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman

 

DR BRYAN ARDIS "GLUTATHIONE DESTROYS THE SNAKE VENOM PEPTIDES IN THE COVID VACCINE"




Katalin Karikó (Hungarian: born 17 January 1955) is a Hungarian-American biochemist who specializes in RNA-mediated mechanisms. Her research has been the development of in vitro-transcribed mRNA for protein therapies. She co-founded and was CEO of RNARx, from 2006 to 2013.[1] Since 2013, she has been associated with BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals, first as a vice president and promoted to senior vice president in 2019.[2] She also is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania.[1]


Drew Weissman (born 1959[1]) is an American physician-scientist best known for his contributions to RNA biology. His work helped enable development of mRNA vaccines, the best known of which are those for COVID-19 produced by BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna.[2] Weissman is the inaugural Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, Director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation, and professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). He and his research colleague Katalin Karikó have received numerous awards including the presigious Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award.

Weissman grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts.[1] He received his B.A. and M.A. from Brandeis University in 1981, where he majored in biochemistry and enzymology and he worked in the lab of Gerald Fasman.[3] He performed his graduate work in immunology and microbiology to receive his M.D. and Ph.D in 1987 at Boston University, which had an affiliation with the Methodist Church.[4] Afterward, Weissman did a residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, followed by a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the supervision of Anthony Fauci, the current director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.





KATALIN KARIKÓ, DREW WEISSMAN, PHILIP FELGNER, UĞUR ŞAHIN, ÖZLEM TÜRECI, DERRICK ROSSI AND SARAH GILBERT

2021 PRINCESS OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR TECHNICAL & SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman, Philip Felgner, Uğur Şahin, Özlem Türeci, Derrick Rossi and Sarah Gilbert have independently contributed to the development of some of the vaccines approved to date, all based on different strategies, but which have protein S as a common target.

https://www.fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards/laureates/2021-katalin-kariko-drew-weissman-philip-felgner-ugur-sahin-ozlem-tureci-derrick-rossi-and-sarah-gilbert.html








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