The Woman Who Saved the World

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On her way to winning the 2023 Nobel Prize for her pioneering work on mRNA vaccines, Katalin Karikó lived a life made for the big screen.

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Thumbnail credit for Dr. Karikó's portrait by: Penn Medicine
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