Two scientists transformed the threat of the pandemic and helped people worldwide resume their lives.
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman laid the groundwork for COVID vaccines. Now they've been awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine.
Members of the panel say the laureates contributed to vaccine development during one of the “greatest threats to human health” in history. messenger RNA vaccines.
The scientists say they never expected to get the prize so quickly.
(Drew Weissman / Nobel Prize in medicine winner)
“Just realizing how important it had the potential to be. And that's why we never gave up. And we just kept persevering and kept working at it. And here we are today.”
Kariko and Weissman know the applications of their work can go further.
They say they hope, one day, such vaccines may even help protect against cancer and other deadly diseases.
◆laureates 受賞者
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman laid the groundwork for COVID vaccines. Now they've been awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine.
Members of the panel say the laureates contributed to vaccine development during one of the “greatest threats to human health” in history. messenger RNA vaccines.
The scientists say they never expected to get the prize so quickly.
(Drew Weissman / Nobel Prize in medicine winner)
“Just realizing how important it had the potential to be. And that's why we never gave up. And we just kept persevering and kept working at it. And here we are today.”
Kariko and Weissman know the applications of their work can go further.
They say they hope, one day, such vaccines may even help protect against cancer and other deadly diseases.
◆laureates 受賞者
◆persevere 辛抱する、（困難に屈せず）努力する、やり抜く