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."
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
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I keep staring but can’t decide what to say. Feels inevitable, like academia’s long-standing exploitation of most of those who teach, without benefits or insurance.
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