Hungarian Nobel Laureate Katalin Karikó Turns 70 Today — Happy Birthday!

Katalin Karikó, a biochemist, academician, Nobel Prize and Széchenyi Prize winner in medicine, one of the developers of the mRNA-based vaccine against the coronavirus, and a recipient of the Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen and the Corvin Chain, celebrates her birthday on January 17.

Hungarian Nobel Laureate Katalin Karikó Turns 70 Today — Happy Birthday!

Hungarian American biochemist Katalin Karikó, best known for receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2023 for her contributions to developing the COVID-19 vaccination, turns 70 today. She was born on 17 January 1955 in Szolnok, Hungary, and grew up in the nearby small town of Kisújszállás. In eighth grade she won a county-wide academic contest in nature studies. After secondary school, she attended the University of Szeged where s…

Many Hungarian scientists have created something important for the world so far. There is only one woman among the 17 Hungarian Nobel laureates. Katalin Karikó, who received the Nobel Prize in 2023 as one of the developers of the MRNA therapeutic application. And just today she turned 70 years old.

Nobel- and Széchenyi Prize-winning biochemist Katalin Karikó, one of the developers of the mRNA-based vaccine against coronavirus, celebrates her seventieth birthday on January 17.

The Hungarian researcher turned 70.

Katalin Karikó's scientific achievements are not only exceptional, but her story is also truly a folktale: she started from a mud house in Kisújszállás and didn't stop until she won the Nobel Prize. The biochemist celebrates her birthday today, and on this occasion, we relive the most iconic scenes of her life.