Nobel prize for medicine goes to COVID-19 vaccine researchersHealthcare workers get vaccinated against COVID-19 during the launch of the bivalent Pfizer vaccine at the FilOil EcoOil Centre in San Juan on June 22, 2023. STOCKHOLM – Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for the groundbreaking COVID-19 vaccines. The World Health Organization declared COVID a pandemic in March 2020 and the mRNA vaccines were approved for use in December that year. Both these innovations were key to the Covid-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna. The pair will receive their Nobel prize, consisting of a diploma, a gold medal and a $1-million check, in Stockholm on Dec. 10.

Source: Philippine Star October 02, 2023 19:03 UTC