Karikó, Katalin, Jan., 1955–, b. Szolnok, Hungary, Hungarian-American biochemist, studied at József Attila Univ., Szeged, Hungary (B.S., Ph.D.). She is Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery at the Univ. of Pennsylvania and a professor at Szeged University, Szeged, Hungary. Karikó, along with Drew Weissman, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery concerning nucleoside base modifications to mRNA that suppressed human immune response to mRNA when taken up by cells, which enabled the rapid development and production of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.
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