Bill Gates Applauds Nobel Laureates Katalin Kariko And Drew Weissman Behind Revolutionary mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines

Tech visionary Bill Gates commended the groundbreaking work of Nobel Prize laureates Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, whose research on mRNA has revolutionized vaccine development against COVID-19.

What Happened: Gates took to X, formerly Twitter, to acknowledge the work of scientists Kariko and Weissman. He celebrated their pioneering research on messenger-RNA (mRNA), which led to the development of lifesaving vaccines against COVID-19 and earned them this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine.

He stated, “@kkariko and @WeissmanLab saw the potential of mRNA when few others did and fought tooth and nail to study it—resulting in revolutionary vaccines that have saved tens of millions of lives. Congratulations on your well-deserved Nobel Prize; your work has truly changed the world.”

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Why It Matters: The work of Kariko and Weissman has had a monumental impact on global health. Their research allowed companies like Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc.– BioNTech SE partnership to create mRNA-based vaccines. These vaccines have been administered to hundreds of millions of people worldwide in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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