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mRNA pioneers, Dr. Drew Weissman and Dr. Katalin Kariko share Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.

Drew Weissman's decades of research helped pave the way for mRNA Covid-19 vaccines, but the scientist isn't resting on his laurels. The...

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2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Awarded to Penn Medicine mRNA Pioneers.

Weissman and Karikó are honored for engineering modified RNA technology which enabled rapid development of effective COVID-19 vaccines It...

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How mRNA Vaccines Help Fight Cancer Tumors, Too

by Steve Graff Thanks to researchers in different fields who put in nearly two decades of past work on mRNA vaccine technology, people...

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Penn Medicine researchers honored on CBS Face the Nation for groundbreaking work in mRNA.

Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, a professor of Infectious Diseases and an mRNA researcher, was honored by “Face the Nation” on CBS News for his...

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Dr. Drew Weissman explains why mRNA vaccines can adapt to variants and why we need to get vaccinated

By Binayak Dasgupta, Hindustan Times The earliest couple of coronavirus vaccines the world had access to were by Pfizer-BioNTech and...