Health
The Hungarian immigrant behind messenger RNA, key to Covid-19 vaccines – The Times of Israel
Katalin Kariko’s obsession with researching mRNA once cost her a position at a top US university, but she persisted and discovered how to deliver it without causing…
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Hungarian-born scientist Katalin Kariko’s obsession with researching a substance called mRNA to fight disease once cost her a faculty position at a prestigious US university, which dismissed the idea as a dead end.
Now, her pioneering work — which paved the way for the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines — could be what saves the world from a 100-year pandemic.
“This is just kind of unbelievable,” she told AFP in a video call from her home in Philadelphia, adding she was unused…
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