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The pioneers of vaccine invention won the medicine portion of the prize

Katalin Karik and Drew Weissmann have won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries that enabled the development of COVID-19 vaccines. “The ideas [that] she and Drew Weismanndeveloped were critical for the success of RNA vaccines,” said John Tregoning, a vaccine immunologist at Imperial College London, in a press statement for the UK Science Media Centre.

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