”If I get an award, I have an opportunity to thank people. I also thank the people who tried to make my life miserable because they made me work harder and become more resilient.”
Next week, our podcast returns with conversations featuring our 2024 laureates.
In the meantime, have a listen to one of our favourite episodes from last season with 2023 medicine laureate Katalin Karikó: https://t.co/gOEdaQMENe
Kamala Harris didn't lose, America did.
As a nation, we collectively failed her—and in doing so we failed girls and women, the LGBTQ community, people of color, Muslims, Jewish people, immigrants, the sick, the poor, the elderly, the people of Ukraine, and Gaza, and the planet.
It's unthinkable, that instead of being able to celebrate a beautiful, hopeful new chapter in the story of this nation with a leader who appealed to the best of our natures—we will instead be holding a postmortem for democracy as we enter our 250th year, stewarded by a malevolent sociopath who despises empathy and shuns the law.
I truly thought we were better than this, that our shared humanity would show up. I thought we would reject this hatred and ugliness once and for all.
I hate being wrong about the majority of the people of this nation.
I don't know what's ahead. All I know is that good-hearted human beings are more necessary now than ever.
We did all that we could to avoid this moment, but now that it's here we'll just have to decide who we will be.
There is no way to comprehend or measure how grievous an error this is, but the only thing the decent people of this nation can do is wake up tomorrow and fight like hell for what we still believe is worth the fight, and we will.
I'll be doing that with whoever has the strength to join me.
I'm mourning the country we could have been and the one we apparently are—but I refuse to give up believing that compassion is the right path, that diversity makes us better, and that love is greater than fear.
Felicidades a la Dra Florencia Rosetti por el “Premio Aida y León Weiss PUIREE-UNAM reconocimiento y fomento a la investigación en genómica aplicada a la salud 2023”, en la Categoría Trabajo de Investigación, justo reconocimiento a su brillante y productiva carrera @florerosetti
The @PennMedicine community gathered Monday to toast messenger RNA pioneers and Nobel laureates Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. “You guys are the heart of Penn Medicine, you guys are the researchers of the future,” Weissman told the crowd.
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“Ten years ago I was kicked out and forced to retire.”
Our new medicine laureate Katalin Karikó (@kkariko) told us how much it means to be awarded the Nobel Prize after a scientific career that has been full of challenges.
Ten years ago, Karikó was still doing all her experiments by hand but today she has been awarded the medicine prize for her research on mRNA, which led to the development of COVID-19 vaccines.
Listen now:
Congrats to #NobelPrize Laureates Dr. Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman, awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work, which led to the development of the #mRNA COVID vaccines. @kkariko@WeissmanLab@PennMedicine#nobelprize
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