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Katalin Karikó won a Nobel for COVID mRNA vaccines. Yet just 10 yrs earlier, Penn kicked her out of academia.

"They told me that they’d had a meeting and concluded that I was not of faculty quality. When I told them I was leaving, they laughed at me and said, ‘BioNTech doesn’t even have a website."
How mRNA went from a scientific backwater to a pandemic crusher
For decades, Katalin Karikó's work into mRNA therapeutics was overlooked by her colleagues. Now it's at the heart of the two leading coronavirus vaccines
www.wired.co.uk
October 2, 2023 at 6:25 PM