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Katalin Karikó moved to the US in 1985, from a Warsaw Pact country. She did her research at UPenn and accepted a demotion and pay cut in 1995 because grant age
by the_why_of_y 4y ago
Katalin Karikó moved to the US in 1985, from a Warsaw Pact country.
She did her research at UPenn and accepted a demotion and pay cut in 1995 because grant agencies decided this weird mRNA stuff wasn't worth funding.
In 2006 she founded startup company RNARx, funded with 100k USD of government grants, but didn't come to an agreement to license patents of her own work which UPenn held.
So in 2013 she joined German company Biontech, funded with 150m EUR of venture capital, which was finally able to productize the research.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w