The Woman Behind the Vaccine Breakthrough

Researcher Katalin Karikó receives a prestigious award from Würzburg. (Image: Vilcek Foundation / MHamiltonVisuals) 08/25/2021 - With her research, biochemist Katalin Karikó laid the foundation for the development of RNA vaccines against the coronavirus. Now she is being honoured for this by the Würzburg Societas Physico-Medica. She is "the woman behind the vaccine breakthrough", as Euronews writes. She made "a discovery that now seems worthy of a Nobel Prize to many experts", according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung. And for the New York Times, she is "the woman who helped protect the world from the new Corona virus". In all three cases, the biochemist Katalin Karikó is meant.