Members of Academia Europaea awarded 2023 Nobel Prizes
Katalin Kariko MAE, together with Drew Weissman, has been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Ferenc Krausz MAE has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 together with Anne L’Huillier and Pierre Agostini.
Katalin Kariko MAE, member of the Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Section of Academia Europaea, along with Drew Weissman, have received the prize in physiology or medicine for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
Ferenc Krausz MAE, member of the Physics and Engineering Sciences Section of Academia Europaea, together with Anne L’Huillier and Pierre Agostini have received the prize in physics “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter“.
About Katalin Kariko MAE
Hungarian biochemist Katalin Kariko MAE is Senior Vice President, BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Her fields of scholarship include the therapeutic use of mRNA, mRNA-based antibody therapeutics, mRNA-based protein replacement therapy and mRNA vaccines. Professor Kariko was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2020.
About Ferenc Krausz MAE
Ferenc Krausz MAE is a director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and a professor of experimental physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. His research includes nonlinear light-matter interactions, ultrashort light pulse generation from the infrared to the X-ray spectral range, and studies of ultrafast microscopic processes. Professor Krausz was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2012.