
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
Hungary
United States
- Languages
- English, Hungarian
- date of birth
- 1/17/1955
- place of birth
- Szolnok
- Age
- 71 years
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- occupation
- consultant
- start time: May 2026
- university teacher
- researcher
- inventor
- biochemist
- neuroscientist
- consultant
- field of work
- messenger RNA
- biochemistry
- educated at
- Móricz Zsigmond Gimnázium és Közgazdasági Szakközépiskola
- University of Szeged
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- academic major: biochemistry
- start time: 1978
- end time: 1982
- University of Szeged
- academic degree: Master of Science
- academic major: biology
- start time: 1973
- end time: 1978
- employer
- Temple University
- BioNTech
- start time: 2013
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
- University of Pennsylvania
- start time: 1987
- Biological Research Centre
- start time: 1978
- member of
- Academia Europaea
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina