Drew Weissman

Drew Weissman, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1959-09-07 in Lexington, MA, USA

Gender: male

Field: American physician and immunologist (born 1959)

Biography

Drew Weissman is an American physician and immunologist known for his contributions to RNA biology. Weissman is the inaugural Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation, and professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn).

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023

Awarded on: 2023-10-02

"for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19"

Affiliations:

  • Penn Institute for RNA Innovations, University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, PA, USA
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