Discoveries that enabled mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 have landed two scientists a Nobel Prize. The Nobel Assembly awarded Katalin Karikó, Ph.D., and Drew Weissman, M.D., Ph.D., the prize for their work on nucleoside base modifications, which underpinned the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines that changed the course of the pandemic. Source: Fierce Biotech 2/10/2023