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Two COVID vaccine pioneers win 2021 Lasker Awards in medicine

Indian Express | 25/09/2021 06:28 PM | Click to read full article

Among this year’s recipients of the Lasker awards, announced Friday, were two scientists whose work was crucial in the development of COVID-19 vaccines.

Katalin Kariko, a senior vice president at BioNTech, and Dr. Drew Weissman, a professor in vaccine research at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, shared this year’s Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award.

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