{"id":116699,"date":"2023-10-03T10:18:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?p=116699"},"modified":"2023-10-16T11:14:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T15:14:19","slug":"bu-alum-drew-weissman-wins-2023-nobel-prize-in-medicine-for-breakthrough-mrna-technology-that-led-to-covid-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2023\/10\/03\/bu-alum-drew-weissman-wins-2023-nobel-prize-in-medicine-for-breakthrough-mrna-technology-that-led-to-covid-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Alum Drew Weissman Wins 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine for Breakthrough mRNA Technology That Led to COVID Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Physician and scientist Drew Weissman, who earned both an\u00a0<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2023\/10\/image002.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116700 alignright\" width=\"281\" height=\"211\" \/><span>MD and a PhD at Boston University, and his research collaborator, Katalin Karik\u00f3, have won the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/medicine\/2023\/summary\/\">2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine<\/a><span> for their pioneering work<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0developing the technology that powers the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, the Nobel committee announced on Monday. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/drew-weissman-wins-nobel-prize-in-medicine\/\">Bostonia<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physician and scientist Drew Weissman, who earned both an MD and a PhD at Boston University, and his research collaborator, Katalin Karik\u00f3, have won the\u00a02023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[127,89,91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117020,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116699\/revisions\/117020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}