Katalin Karikó
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2023for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19Together with: Drew Weissman
- Citizenship
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Hungary 
United States - Languages
- English, Hungarian
- date of birth
- 1/17/1955
- place of birth
- Szolnok
- Age
- 71 years
- educated at
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- University of Szeged
- academic major: biology
- academic degree: Master of Science
- start time: 1/1/1973
- end time: 1/1/1978
- University of Szeged
- academic major: biochemistry
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- start time: 1/1/1978
- end time: 1/1/1982
- Móricz Zsigmond Gimnázium és Közgazdasági Szakközépiskola
- University of Szeged
- employer
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- Biological Research Centre
- start time: 1/1/1978
- BioNTech
- start time: 1/1/2013
- University of Pennsylvania
- start time: 1/1/1987
- Temple University
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
- Biological Research Centre
- occupation
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- consultant
- start time: 5/1/2026
- inventor
- researcher
- university teacher
- biochemist
- neuroscientist
- consultant
- field of work
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- messenger RNA
- biochemistry
- member of
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- Academia Europaea
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina