Where did Nobel Prize in Medicine winners study? Here’s educational qualifications of Kariko and Weissman

Katalin Karikó was born in 1955 in Szolnok, Hungary.

Since 2021, Katalin Karikó has been a Professor at Szeged University and an Adjunct Professor at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The University of Szeged has also shared a congratulatory post for the Nobel Prize winner. (Pic source: he University of Szeged)

Karikó first attended Móricz Zsigmond Református Gimnázium and then earned her PhD at the University of Szeged.

Karikó shifted to the Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre of Hungary after her PhD. (Source: brc.hu)

After the University of Szeged. Karikó continued her research and postdoctoral studies at the Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre of Hungary. However, it is reported that the lab lost its funding in 1985 and then she started serving as a postdoctoral fellow at Temple University in Philadelphia and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD.

Drew Weissman was born in 1959 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA.

Drew Weissman is the Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research and Director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovations.

Weissman completed his BA and MA at the Brandeis University.

Drew Weissman earned his BA and MA degrees from the Brandeis University in 1981, where he majored in biochemistry and enzymology and he worked in the lab of Gerald Fasman.

He completed his MD and PhD from Boston University. (Source: bu.edu)

After Brandeis University, Weismann earned his MD and PhD degrees in in 1987 at Boston University. He then did a residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, followed by a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).