Katalin Karikó

Awards

1. 2021

   Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For the discovery of a new therapeutic technology based on the modification of messenger RNA—enabling rapid development of highly effective Covid-19 vaccines

2. 2022

   Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

   Biology

   for engineering modified RNA technology which enabled rapid development of effective COVID-19 vaccines.

3. 2022

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For their pioneering work developing nucleoside-modified mRNA and lipid nanoparticle (LNP) drug delivery: the foundational technologies for the highly effective COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.

4. 2022

   Japan Prize — Materials and Production

   CS

   for pioneering research contributing to the development of mRNA vaccines.

5. 2023

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19