Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine Announced

Offered since 1901 Nobel PrizesThis year’s owners have started to be announced as of today. In this context, today the winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine were announced. In the coming days, the committee will in other categories will continue to announce the award winners. So who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023?

This year, the Nobel Committee selected scientists named Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman. Nobel Prize in Medicine He deemed it worthy. These two scientists played important roles in the development of mRNA technology, which we talked about most in the COVID-19 pandemic. Kariko and Weissman, mRNAThey had determined how it interacts with the body. This discovery enabled the rapid development of vaccines that gave hope to people with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“A promising idea”

In the statements made about Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine, it was stated that these two scientists by solving the technology It was stated that mRNA-based vaccines have been developed. The Nobel Committee described mRNA vaccines as a “promising idea” and stated that mRNA technology could be used effectively against many diseases, including cancer. The Committee considers the potential of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines provides understanding he stated.

To whom was it given last year?

Nobel Prize in Medicine will be awarded to Svante Paabo in 2022 to the geneticist was given. Svante Paabo, one of the closest relatives of modern humans, with his studies neanderthals had managed to sequence its genome.