Katalin Karikó#


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



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