2024 Lab Wizards
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
Ho-hum: another August, another honor for this pair of Penn researchers whose work in mRNA tech was key to the creation of the COVID vaccines. This time, it was the big one: the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Just days after the Nobel announcement came the publication of Hungarian émigré Karikó’s memoir, Breaking Through: My Life in Science. You could say it’s been a very good year.