The Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Assembly, announced the award Monday in Stockholm.
Karikó is a professor at Sagan's University in Hungary and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Eisner performed his prizewinning research together with Karikó at the University of Pennsylvania.
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The Nobel Prizes carry a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor (USD 1 million). The money comes from a bequest left by the prize's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896.
