Katalin Karikó#
| Membership Number: | 5564 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Karik%C3%B3 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1864-3851 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Senior Vice President, BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals
- 2013 - 2019 Vice President, BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals
- 2009 - present Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- 1995 - 2009 Senior Research Investigator, Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- 1989 - 1995 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- 1988 - 1989 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology, USUHS Bethesda, MD
- 1985 - 1988 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
- 1982 - 1985 Postdoctoral Fellow, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
- 1978 - 1982 Graduate Student, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
- 1973 - 1978 Undergraduate Student, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Fields of Scholarship
- Therapeutic use of mRNA
- mRNA-based antibody therapeutics
- mRNA-based protein replacement therapy
- mRNA vaccines
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Drew Weissman) "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19"
- 2023 Cameron Award, University of Edinburgh
- 2023 Dawson Award in Genetics, Smurfit Institute of Genetics in Trinity
- 2023 Faces of American Innovation
- 2023 Genius Award, New Jersey City University
- 2023 Harvey Prize of the Technion in Israel (awarded in 2023 for the year 2021)
- 2023 Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen
- 2023 Jonathan E. Rhoads Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Medicine, American Philosophical Society
- 2023 LIV Jiménez Díaz Commemorative Lecture, Fundación Jiménez Díaz
- 2023 Meyenburg Prize, Helmholtz Institute for Translational Oncology (HI-TRON)
- 2023 Neumann János Prize, Budapest University of Technology and Economics and John von Neumann Computer Society
- 2022 Beacon Award of Trustees' Council of Penn Women, PennAlumni of University of Pennsylvania
- 2022 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia
- 2022 Camurus Lipid Science Prize, Camurus Lipid Research Foundation
- 2022 Canada Gairdner International Awards
- 2022 German Immunology Prize, German Society for Immunology
- 2022 Emilia Chiancone Medal, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, Rome
- 2022 Empowering Research and Discovery Award, National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI)
- 2022 European Inventor Award for Lifetime achievement, European Patent Office
- 2022 Golden Arrow, Vienna Congress com.sult 2022
- 2022 Harold Berger Award, Penn Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- 2022 Helmholtz Medal 2022, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2022 Japan Prize, Japan Prize Foundation
- 2022 Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Megye Díszpolgára Díj
- 2022 Jeantet-Collen Prize for Medicine
- 2022 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, Louis-Jeantet Foundation, Geneva
- 2022 Lindhal Lecture, Neurovations
- 2022 Matis Family Investigator Award, Drs. Louis and Lyn Matis – Penn Institute for Immunology
- 2022 Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award, Dubai Culture and Arts Authority
- 2022 National Inventors Hall of Fame, The United States Patent and Trademark Office & The National Inventors Hall of Fame
- 2022 Park MahnHoon Award, International Vaccine Institute & SK bioscience
- 2022 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, Rockefeller University
- 2022 Peter Speiser Award, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of ETH Zurich
- 2022 Philadelphia-Israel Chamber of Commerce Award, Philadelphia-Israel Chamber of Commerce
- 2022 Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine, Feinstein Institute
- 2022 SBMT Award, Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics
- 2022 Semmelweis Budapest Award, Semmelweis Egyetem
- 2022 Solvay Prize
- 2022 Stanford University Drug Discovery Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2022 Vilcek Prize for Excellence in Biotechnology, Vilcek Foundation
- 2022 Werner von Siemens Ring, The Werner von Siemens Ring Foundation
- 2022 Warren Alpert Prize, Harvard Medical School
- 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- 2022 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, The Paul Ehrlich Foundation
- 2022 VinFuture Prize
- 2022 Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal, National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Washington
- 2022 Japan Prize
- 2022 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
- 2022 Canada Gairdner International Award
- 2022 Harvey Prize (2023 awarded for the year 2021)
- 2022 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- 2022 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Award
- 2022 National Inventors Hall of Fame® (NIHF) 2022 class of Inductees
- 2021 Wilhelm Exner Medal
- 2021 Széchenyi Prize
- 2021 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
- 2021 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
- 2021 Albany Medical Center Prize
- 2021 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
- 2021 Grande Médaille, French Academy of Sciences
- 2021 Golden Goose Award
- 2021 John Scott Medal, Philadelphia University
- 2021 Prince Mahidol Award
- 2021 German Future Prize
- 2021 Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine
- 2021 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
- 2021 BIAL Award in Biomedicine, BIAL Foundation
- 2021 Bill Foege Award
- 2021 Dr. Paul Janssen Award, Johnson & Johnson
- 2021 Frontiers Awards, BBVA Foundation, Bilbao
- 2021 Keio Medical Science Prize, Keio University
- 2021 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Columbia University
- 2021 Novo Nordisk Prize, Novo Nordisk Foundation
- 2021 Prince Mahidol Award, Prince Mahidol Award Foundation under the Royal Patronage, Bangkok
- 2021 Princess Marina Sturdza Award, Emerging Europe Council
- 2021 Reichstein Medal, Swiss Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (SAPhS)
- 2021 Stem Cell Hero NYSCF, The New York Stem Cell Foundation
- 2021 Straub-plakett, Biological Research Centre (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Szeged
- 2021 Széchenyi Prize, Government of Hungary
- 2021 Theodor Boveri Award, University of Würzburg
- 2021 Wilhelm Exner Medal, Austrian Industrial Association
- 2021 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology, Cancer Research Institute
- 2020 Rosenstiel Award
- Memberships
- 2021 Member, AAAS Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2021 Foreign Member, French Académie des sciences
- 2021 Hawking Fellow, Cambridge Union
- 2022 Member, German National Academy of Sciences (German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina)
- 2022 Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2022 Member, National Academy of Inventors
- 2022 Member, National Academy of Medicine, Washington
- 2023 Member, EMBO
- Honorary degrees
- 2021 University of Szeged, Duke University, Humanitas University of Milan
- 2022 Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Radboud University, Rockefeller University, Tel Aviv University, Université libre de Bruxelles, University of Geneva, Yale University
- 2023 Brandeis University, University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC), Harvard University, Princeton University, Rutgers University, Chinese University of Hong Kong
