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Katalin Karikó, a researcher who developed the patent for the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, was one of the guests at Wednesday’s online press seminar at the European Parliament, writes Telex.
The developer of the patent that forms the basis of mRNA vaccines also spoke in detail about his childhood and years in Hungary. According to him, they had a simple family, they lived in a simple house, they had no running water or television. But the important thing was that they had good teachers: they taught them about crystals, chemistry and, in fact, that also attracted him to a scientific career.
His parents considered it important that their son continue his education.
He loved university life, then he started working at the Szeged research institute, and already in one of his first projects he dealt with RNA research.
I felt very important what I was doing and how it would affect the lives of others. I loved living in Hungary, but felt that I could do more. I needed a change of environment to get on. As often happens in fairy tales: you have to go into the world and test how far you can go, what is in us? If I had stayed home, it might never have worked
He said.
He finally came to the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, when he said that everyone was dealing with DNA while he investigated RNA like a thyme egg.
However, for a long time he was unable to continue his project of shaping RNA molecules here, and in fact, in 2013, the university did not renew his work.
To be honest, I felt that at least as many women wanted to make my life miserable as men.
He remembered.
He mentioned it, even in high school, he received a book from his teacher called: How to Live a Life Without Stress? Since then, he has focused only on where he can go next, not what others are saying.
We must not waste our energies on this, we must swim again and again, otherwise we will sink
He declared.
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