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Katalin Karikó
6 quotes
“Every night I was working: grant, grant, grant. And it came back always no, no, no.”
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“The idea was to give our cells, thanks to messenger Rna (mRna), the instructions to produce proteins capable of curing diseases. ... with RNA he can make his cells produce that protein continuously for 2-3 days and everything is resolved.”
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“With mRna I can get my muscle cells to start producing Epo. And even if Epo degrades after two hours and mRna degrades after five days, once you have produced red blood cells they last up to three hundred days. I'm working on an anticancer idea: injecting an mRna into the tumor that prompts the cancer cells to do something that gets the attention of the immune system: release cytokines. It's like saying to the immune cells, "Come here! Come here!".”
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“In the American university system you are not salaried: you have to bring the funding for your research, winning scholarships. I kept trying, but my questions were turned down. My research colleagues understood that I was working on interesting things and they subsidized me until the beautiful age of 58. I left the University of Pennsylvania after 24 years of work, without ever having had a proposal for a professorship or a permanent contract.”
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“I have to say that I expected that the vaccines would work. signed an agreement with in 2018 to develop an -based influenza vaccine. And by end of 2019 we had already seen the results of s. We were ready for the with the . So in 2020 we just had to change the template so the generated mRNA coded for -specific . Considering all the prior results, I expected that this new vaccine would work. What I did not expect was that I would be recognized.”
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“Science is fun, to be a scientist, this is a fun job. What is exciting is that there is a complexity, and then it is you who can solve it by reading articles or doing experiments and put together things which maybe nobody did. Then you realise what’s going on. The joy that you were the first one to know that this is how things happens.”
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