[SeekAndFind]

KATALIN KARIKO

All did not end badly though.... Kariko is now a senior vice president at Pfizer's German partner BioNTech.

Her daughter, Susan Francia also went to the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a Master’s degree, and won gold medals with the US Olympic rowing team in 2008 and 2012.

Her innovations were key to the Covid-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer now being used in the USA and eventually, worldwide.

Now, should everything go well with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, it is not hard to imagine the Nobel Prize committee rewarding Kariko and fellow mRNA researchers.

[Red Badger]

She should get the Nobel Prize for Medicine...............

[Cold Heart]

Thanks

[PGR88]

But the University of Pennsylvania, where Kariko was on track for a professorship, decided to pull the plug after the grant rejections piled up.

I know quite a few people working at bio-medical research labs. When you reach the top, time is spent schmoozing and on academic bureaucracy internal politics - and raising money to fund labs and departments.

Therefore, I’m not surprised by her experience - if you don’t can’t bring in the cash and are not politically popular in the organization - you will be gone.

[BigEdLB]

I agree. Nobel prize in medicine.

[lee martell]

Nevertheless, she persisted.

This scientist had to give up her preferred research because there was little financial support through grants.
She was practical, and did not walk away from the University completely. Now, her time has come. Her research is urgently needed.

[libh8er]

Great story. This is how you succeed - by perseverance and hard work. Not by crying victim.