On Monday, Katalin Karik\u00f3 won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, but her journey to prestige has been punctuated with more hurdles than catalysts.
Nobel Prize winner Katalin Karikó was ‘demoted 4 times' at her old job. How she persisted: ‘You have to focus on what's next'It took only a few hours for the BioNTech-Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine to be created. Moderna created its Covid vaccine in two days.
A few years after she and Suhadolnik began working together, she got another job offer, which she accepted. Suhadolnik didn't receive the news well, she says. According to Gregory Zuckerman's 2021 book"A Shot to Save the World,"immigration officials that Karikó was living in the country illegally, and she had to hire a lawyer to fight deportation; as a result of the legal issues, the new employer withdrew its job offer.
After her Nobel Prize win brought out stories of her career struggles, those in the academic community were quick to point out how hard it is for researchers in the U.S., especially those from another country, to fund their research. "Nobel Prizes are slow, tedious, methodical lab work," he says."Albert Einstein didn't publish that many papers. But in this day and age volume is king.""I was nobody," she says."I was not a famous speaker. So many immigrant scientists are like that. Every time when I get an award, I am thinking about them. Why I didn't stop researching is because I did not crave recognition.
Their paper on how mRNA might be used to deliver new instructions to diseased cells was published in 2005 and met with no fanfare. In 2008, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School stumbled across it and elaborated on it to publish his own research in 2010, crediting both Karikó and Weissman.'I felt successful when others considered me unsuccessful'
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