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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Sweet Peanut and Hou Liangping for their clue delivery! CTOnews.com, October 2 (Xinhua)-- this afternoon, Beijing time, Sweden's Caroline Medical College announced the 2023 Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine-- American scientists Katalin Karik ó and Drew Weissman.

According to reports, the two scientists have made a major discovery in nucleoside base modification, which has led to the development of an effective mRNA vaccine against COVID-19, and they will share a prize of 11 million Swedish kronor (CTOnews.com Note: about 7.34 million yuan).

According to a press release provided by the official Nobel Prize:

The findings of the two Nobel laureates are crucial to the development of an effective mRNA vaccine to prevent COVID-19 during a pandemic.

Their groundbreaking findings fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with the immune system, so the two Nobel laureates contributed to developing vaccines at an unprecedented rate at a time when modern human health faces one of the greatest threats.

The lives of the two Nobel laureates are roughly as follows:

Born in Hungary in 1955, Katalin Karik ó received his doctorate from the University of Segud in 1982 and was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1989 until 2013. She has been a professor at Segard University and an adjunct professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania since 2021.

Born in Massachusetts in 1959, Drew Weissman received his M.D. from Boston University in 1987 and founded his own research team at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. he is the director of the RNA Innovation Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.

▲ Tuyuan Nobel Prize official Tu CTOnews.com previously reported that the Nobel Foundation announced in the middle of last month that it would increase this year's Nobel Prize prize by 1 million Swedish kronor to 11 million Swedish kronor due to the sharp devaluation of the Swedish kronor so far this year.

"the foundation chose to increase the amount of the prize because it is economically feasible," the Nobel Foundation said in a simple statement. by the end of 2022, the Nobel Foundation had awarded prizes of 5.799 billion Swedish kronor (about 3.87 billion yuan). "

This year's Nobel Prize winners will be announced from October 2, and the award ceremony will be held on December 10, which is also the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prize.

This year's Nobel Prize will have winners in as many as six fields, who will share this historically high prize and make greater contributions to the progress and well-being of mankind.

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