The scientists who developed the mRNA technology used in the Pfizer, BioNTech, and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in Sweden on Monday morning.
The Nobel Prize committee gave the prestigious award to University of Pennsylvania scientists Drew Weissman and Katalin Kariko as a result of their contribution to “the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times.”
The committee further praised the scientist’s “groundbreaking findings” that “fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system.”
MRNA and other COVID vaccines have been administered over 13 billion times across the world since the coronavirus pandemic and were widely acknowledged as “experimental” throughout the scientific community.
There have been countless registered adverse effects linked to the vaccines, including menstrual disturbances, Tinnitus, severe neurological complications, Bell’s palsy, strokes, and even “reprogramming” children’s immune systems.
The pair will share the 11 million Swedish Krona (1,000,000) prize money between them. The scientists were also awarded a $2.2 million Breakthrough Prize in 2021 for their research.
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