(2 Oct 2023)
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Philadelphia - 2 October 2023
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Katalin Karikó, winner of Nobel Prize in medicine:
"Me and Drew Weissman, who received the Nobel Prize today and I was like, I didn't know whether it is real. You know, we suspected maybe some, you know, know prank, maybe, I don't know, people reports, things like that."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Drew Weissman, winner of Nobel Prize in medicine:
"I never expected my entire life to get the Nobel Prize and this incredible honor. But no, I wasn't expecting it this quick. And he said, yeah, we we kind of figured that was going to happen. But they said we wanted to be more current."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Drew Weissman, winner of Nobel Prize in medicine:
"Everybody thinks RNA was invented in ten months, but the first clinical trials in 1995, 96. It's been around for a long time, clinical trials with modified RNA started in 2018, and they've been going on ever since. We had three clinical trials going on before COVID hit, so this isn't a new thing. And since COVID and all the attention we've been able to tell the world about what we are doing, but we've got clinical trials for seven vaccines."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Drew Weissman, winner of Nobel Prize in medicine:
"In order for our society to move forward, we need science. Everything that's moved our society forward in the past thousands of years has been science based."
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STORYLINE:
Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 that were critical in slowing the pandemic and whose technology could be used in the future to develop shots against other diseases like cancer and lupus.
Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman were cited for contributing “to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health,” according to the panel that awarded the prize in Stockholm.
The panel said the pair’s “groundbreaking findings ... fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system.”
Nobel Foundation raises the amount for this year’s Nobel Prize awards to 11 million kronor
Traditionally, making vaccines required growing viruses or pieces of viruses and then purifying them before next steps. The messenger RNA approach starts with a snippet of genetic code carrying instructions for making proteins. Pick the right virus protein to target, and the body turns into a mini vaccine factory.
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