Nobel Prize in Medicine for the 'parents' of the mRNA vaccine against Covid

• Nobel Medicine 2022: Svante Pääbo, awarded for his discoveries on human evolution

The Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has distinguished with the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology the 'parents' of mRNA vaccines against Covid, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman.

Last year, the Swedish biologist Svante Pääbo (Stockholm, 1955) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his findings on human evolution and the sequencing of the genome of extinct species.

In 2021, the award went to scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for having managed to unravel the mechanisms that allow us to feel cold, heat, pressure or pain.

After the Medicine award, which opens every year the delivery of the Nobels, will follow the Physics on Tuesday, October 3, Chemistry on Wednesday 4 and Literature on Thursday 5. On Friday 6 the Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded and, finally, the prize for Economic Sciences will be announced on Monday 9.

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