Drew Weissman
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Drew Weissman (born September 7, 1959) is an American physician and immunologist known for his contributions to RNA biology. Weissman is the inaugural Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation, and professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). Weissman's work underlies the development of mRNA vaccines, the best known of which are those for COVID-19 produced by BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna.
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Brownstein: Nobel Prize winner Drew Weissman retraces path to a COVID vaccine at McGill talk
2023 Nobel Prize winner Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, reflects on the value of basic science research
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 - World Health Organization (WHO)
Miracle of medicine: COVID vaccine pioneers Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman get a deserved Nobel Prize
BU Alum Drew Weissman Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine for Breakthrough mRNA Technology That Led to COVID Vaccines
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, Penn’s historic mRNA vaccine research team, win 2023 Nobel Prize
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman win Nobel Prize in medicine for enabling development of mRNA vaccines
Nobel in medicine goes to two scientists whose work enabled creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
Mass. native Drew Weissman wins Nobel Prize for contributions to Covid-19 vaccines
Drew Weissman, Jewish immunologist, wins Nobel Prize for his work on Covid vaccines
How Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó Developed the mRNA Technology Inside COVID Vaccines
2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences awarded to mRNA pioneers Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó
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