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Pam King Sams
Sep 15, 20212 min read
mRNA pioneers, Dr. Drew Weissman and Dr. Katalin Kariko share Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Drew Weissman's decades of research helped pave the way for mRNA Covid-19 vaccines, but the scientist isn't resting on his laurels. The...
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Pam King Sams
Sep 9, 20213 min read
2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Awarded to Penn Medicine mRNA Pioneers.
Weissman and Karikó are honored for engineering modified RNA technology which enabled rapid development of effective COVID-19 vaccines It...
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Pam King Sams
Jun 16, 20214 min read
How mRNA Vaccines Help Fight Cancer Tumors, Too
by Steve Graff Thanks to researchers in different fields who put in nearly two decades of past work on mRNA vaccine technology, people...
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Pam King Sams
May 3, 20211 min read
Penn Medicine researchers honored on CBS Face the Nation for groundbreaking work in mRNA.
Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, a professor of Infectious Diseases and an mRNA researcher, was honored by “Face the Nation” on CBS News for his...
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Pam King Sams
Apr 27, 20215 min read
Dr. Drew Weissman explains why mRNA vaccines can adapt to variants and why we need to get vaccinated
By Binayak Dasgupta, Hindustan Times The earliest couple of coronavirus vaccines the world had access to were by Pfizer-BioNTech and...
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