Katalin Karikó: The power of focus | COLLOQUIUM: Nobel of Medicine 2023 by Matilde Cañelles López скачать в хорошем качестве

Katalin Karikó: The power of focus | COLLOQUIUM: Nobel of Medicine 2023 by Matilde Cañelles López

Katalin Karikó won, together with Drew Weismann, the 2023 Nobel Prize, for her crucial contribution to the development of an mRNA vaccine against COVID-19. The vaccine, developed in record time, was of great importance to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, saving countless lives and preventing sequelae from the illness all around the Globe. In this talk, Matilde Cañelles López, CSIC researcher, will explore the personal and professional circumstances that led this amazing Hungarian woman to unexpectedly become the center of the world during the worst sanitary emergency that most of us has witnessed. She will focus on her education in an Eastern European country, her character, and the flaws of the scientific environment that almost led her to abandon her pursue of an mRNA vaccine.