Karikó donates Nobel Prize money to alma mater
Very nice gesture, thank you Katalin Karikó
The Hungarian Nobel Laureate Katalin Karikó will donate her more than half a million dollars in prize money to support outstanding teachers and students at her alma mater, the University of Szeged, in southern Hungary.
Professor Karikó announced the donation at a talk given at her former school on Tuesday.
Karikó and her research partner Professor Drew Weissman shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
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