Vienna Josephinum opens exhibition on Hungarian Nobel laureate Karikó
An exhibition on the life and work of Nobel laureate Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó has opened at the Josephinum, the Medical History Museum in Vienna.
Katalin Karikó exhibition
The exhibition called Forever Forward runs through May 31. It features objects connected to Karikó‘s life and work from a collection of the Szeged University, her alma mater.
It also features a short film on the mRNS vaccine against the coronavirus, for which Karikó and Drew Weissmann received the Nobel Prize in 2023. The two researchers and Ugur Sahin, the head of the manufacturing company BioNTech, present the research in the film.
Karikó told the press conference after the opening that acknowledgement of her work presented opportunities to direct the spotlight on research and scientists. She said science and the media had a joint responsibility in presenting scientific results to the public in a comprehensible fashion.
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