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Mareike Wiedmann, PhD
Sep 2026 • linkedin
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In 1995, Katalin Karikó was demoted. In 2023, she won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. The research behind both events was mRNA. Karikó grew up in Kisújszállás, Hungary. Her father was a butcher; her mother became a bookkeeper. At age 14, she travelled to a week-long national Biology competition in Budapest, 150km from her hometown. Her parents couldn’t take a week off work, so her father put her on the train and she went by herself. She arrived and won third place in the country-wide Biology competition. 🧠 She earne…
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