On Monday, Karikó, along with her collaborator Drew Weissman, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
It's clear, and impressive, that Karikó didn't take those obstacles personally.
Suhadolnik didn't receive the news well, she says.
If you have a Ph.D. from an American Ivy League [university], that's better compared to if you have a degree from a foreign university."
The type of work Karikó does, Feigl-Ding says, doesn't make splashy headlines, because groundbreaking work rarely does.
Persons:
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Organizations:
Pfizer, Moderna, CNBC, University of Pennsylvania, University of Szeged, Biological Research, Temple University, Uniformed Services University of, Health Sciences, New, Systems Institute, Harvard Medical School, American Ivy League, Universities, Systems, Harvard Medical
Locations:
Hungary, Philadelphia, Bethesda , Maryland, UPenn, United States, U.S, New England