The mother of the vaccine was working on a project that had been kept secret until now.
Katalin Karikó, an unavoidable figure in the fight against the coronavirus, while traveling the world to give lectures and receive prestigious awards and recognitions, announced on her Instagram page the news that her biographical volume, Breaking Through - My Life In Science, will be published in the first half of October .
One day after the premiere of the three-hundred-page, English-language edition, on October 11, the world-famous Hungarian biochemistry book entitled Breakthroughs - My Life and Science will also be published in Hungarian.
The career that started from the adobe house in the countryside was punctuated by a series of professional slaps, difficulties and rejections, but nothing could take away the faith and perseverance of the Hungarian biochemist. The name of Katalin Karikó became known to the world thanks to her inescapable merits in the birth of the vaccine against the coronavirus pandemic.
The scientific world rewarded the results of his work with a series of prestigious awards. Last month, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) awarded the title of Doctor of Sciences to Katalin Karikó, the University of Szeged announced, noting that this is the Hungarian biochemist's 16th honorary doctorate. Previously, the University of Szeged, Eötvös Lóránd University, Yale, Harvard and Princeton University awarded Katalin Karikó an honorary doctorate.
