!!!Katalin Karikó \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='Kariko_Katalin_0512 02020_small.jpg' alt='Katalin Karikó' height='200'}] %% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\ \\ \\ \\ __Present and Previous Positions__ *2019 - present Senior Vice President, BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals *2013 - 2019 Vice President, BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals *2009 - present Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania *1995 - 2009 Senior Research Investigator, Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania *1989 - 1995 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania *1988 - 1989 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology, USUHS Bethesda, MD *1985 - 1988 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA *1982 - 1985 Postdoctoral Fellow, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary *1978 - 1982 Graduate Student, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary *1973 - 1978 Undergraduate Student, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary \\ __Fields of Scholarship__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __Honours and Awards__ *2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Drew Weissman) "''for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19''" *2023 Cameron Award, University of Edinburgh *2023 Dawson Award in Genetics, Smurfit Institute of Genetics in Trinity *2023 Faces of American Innovation *2023 Genius Award, New Jersey City University *2023 Harvey Prize of the Technion in Israel (awarded in 2023 for the year 2021) *2023 Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen *2023 Jonathan E. Rhoads Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Medicine, American Philosophical Society *2023 LIV Jiménez Díaz Commemorative Lecture, Fundación Jiménez Díaz *2023 Meyenburg Prize, Helmholtz Institute for Translational Oncology (HI-TRON) *2023 Neumann János Prize, Budapest University of Technology and Economics and John von Neumann Computer Society *2022 Beacon Award of Trustees' Council of Penn Women, PennAlumni of University of Pennsylvania *2022 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia *2022 Camurus Lipid Science Prize, Camurus Lipid Research Foundation *2022 Canada Gairdner International Awards *2022 German Immunology Prize, German Society for Immunology *2022 Emilia Chiancone Medal, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, Rome *2022 Empowering Research and Discovery Award, National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI) *2022 European Inventor Award for Lifetime achievement, European Patent Office *2022 Golden Arrow, Vienna Congress com.sult 2022 *2022 Harold Berger Award, Penn Engineering, University of Pennsylvania *2022 Helmholtz Medal 2022, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities *2022 Japan Prize, Japan Prize Foundation *2022 Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Megye Díszpolgára Díj *2022 Jeantet-Collen Prize for Medicine *2022 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, Louis-Jeantet Foundation, Geneva *2022 Lindhal Lecture, Neurovations *2022 Matis Family Investigator Award, Drs. Louis and Lyn Matis – Penn Institute for Immunology *2022 Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award, Dubai Culture and Arts Authority *2022 National Inventors Hall of Fame, The United States Patent and Trademark Office & The National Inventors Hall of Fame *2022 Park MahnHoon Award, International Vaccine Institute & SK bioscience *2022 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, Rockefeller University *2022 Peter Speiser Award, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of ETH Zurich *2022 Philadelphia-Israel Chamber of Commerce Award, Philadelphia-Israel Chamber of Commerce *2022 Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine, Feinstein Institute *2022 SBMT Award, Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics *2022 Semmelweis Budapest Award, Semmelweis Egyetem *2022 Solvay Prize *2022 Stanford University Drug Discovery Lifetime Achievement Award *2022 Vilcek Prize for Excellence in Biotechnology, Vilcek Foundation *2022 Werner von Siemens Ring, The Werner von Siemens Ring Foundation *2022 Warren Alpert Prize, Harvard Medical School *2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences *2022 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, The Paul Ehrlich Foundation *2022 VinFuture Prize *2022 Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal, National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Washington *2022 Japan Prize *2022 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize *2022 Canada Gairdner International Award *2022 Harvey Prize (2023 awarded for the year 2021) *2022 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan *2022 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Award *2022 National Inventors Hall of Fame® (NIHF) 2022 class of Inductees *2021 Wilhelm Exner Medal *2021 Széchenyi Prize *2021 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research *2021 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize *2021 Albany Medical Center Prize *2021 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation *2021 Grande Médaille, French Academy of Sciences *2021 Golden Goose Award *2021 John Scott Medal, Philadelphia University *2021 Prince Mahidol Award *2021 German Future Prize *2021 Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine *2021 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award *2021 BIAL Award in Biomedicine, BIAL Foundation *2021 Bill Foege Award *2021 Dr. Paul Janssen Award, Johnson & Johnson *2021 Frontiers Awards, BBVA Foundation, Bilbao *2021 Keio Medical Science Prize, Keio University *2021 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Columbia University *2021 Novo Nordisk Prize, Novo Nordisk Foundation *2021 Prince Mahidol Award, Prince Mahidol Award Foundation under the Royal Patronage, Bangkok *2021 Princess Marina Sturdza Award, Emerging Europe Council *2021 Reichstein Medal, Swiss Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (SAPhS) *2021 Stem Cell Hero NYSCF, The New York Stem Cell Foundation *2021 Straub-plakett, Biological Research Centre (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Szeged *2021 Széchenyi Prize, Government of Hungary *2021 Theodor Boveri Award, University of Würzburg *2021 Wilhelm Exner Medal, Austrian Industrial Association *2021 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology, Cancer Research Institute *2020 Rosenstiel Award *Memberships **2021 Member, AAAS Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science **2021 Foreign Member, French Académie des sciences **2021 Hawking Fellow, Cambridge Union **2022 Member, German National Academy of Sciences (German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina) **2022 Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences **2022 Member, National Academy of Inventors **2022 Member, National Academy of Medicine, Washington **2023 Member, EMBO *Honorary degrees **2021 University of Szeged, Duke University, Humanitas University of Milan **2022 Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Radboud University, Rockefeller University, Tel Aviv University, Université libre de Bruxelles, University of Geneva, Yale University **2023 Brandeis University, University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC), Harvard University, Princeton University, Rutgers University, Chinese University of Hong Kong \\ \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Karikó_Katalin/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Karikó_Katalin/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Karikó_Katalin/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Other information|User/Karikó_Katalin/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit kkariko}] [{ALLOW upload kkariko}] [{ALLOW comment All}]