Katalin Karikó, Hungarian Vice President of BioNTech, worked with her research partner to develop the foundation for the most promising coronavirus vaccines.

“Give this woman a Nobel Prize!” – wrote evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on Twitter, praising the work of Hungarian researcher Katalin Karikó. Dawkins also attached an article in English on the Hungarian scientist’s results.

Katalin Karikó, the Hungarian vice president of a company called BioNTech, who, together with her research partner Drew Weismann, developed the basis for today’s coronavirus vaccines, the so-called messenger RNA.

Karikó was born in Szolnok, then after a few years of research in Hungary, he moved to the United States and still lives there. THE hvg360In an interview with, he said:

Developing a vaccine is primarily a moral obligation.

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