Katalin Karikó
Born: 17 January 1955, Szolnok, Hungary
Affiliation at the time of the award: Szeged University, Szeged, Hungary; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Prize motivation: “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”
Prize share: 1/2
Drew Weissman
Born: 7 September 1959, Lexington, MA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Penn Institute for RNA Innovations, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Prize motivation: “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”
Prize share: 1/2
Svante Pääbo
Born: 20 April 1955, Stockholm, Sweden
Affiliation at the time of the award: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan
Prize motivation: “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”
Prize share: 1/1
(with acknowledgements to Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Applied Undergraduate Research Skills. University of Reading, UK)