{"id":95167,"date":"2023-10-10T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T15:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/?p=95167"},"modified":"2023-10-16T10:03:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T14:03:24","slug":"bu-alum-drew-weissman-camed87-grs87-hon23-wins-2023-nobel-prize-in-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/2023\/10\/10\/bu-alum-drew-weissman-camed87-grs87-hon23-wins-2023-nobel-prize-in-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Alum Drew Weissman (CAMED&#8217;87, GRS&#8217;87, Hon&#8217;23) Wins 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/drew-weissman-wins-nobel-prize-in-medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BU Alum Drew Weissman Wins 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine for Breakthrough mRNA Technology that led to COVID Vaccines<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Bostonia;\u00a0<\/em>October 2, 2023<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_95168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95168\" style=\"width: 347px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2023\/10\/leadin-Weissman-portrait-509x636.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"421\" class=\"wp-image-95168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2023\/10\/leadin-Weissman-portrait-509x636.jpeg 509w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2023\/10\/leadin-Weissman-portrait-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2023\/10\/leadin-Weissman-portrait-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2023\/10\/leadin-Weissman-portrait.jpeg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drew Weissman (CAMED &#8217;87, GRS &#8217;87). Weissman earned both and MD and PhD from Boston University Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine, studying microbiology and immunology.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Drew Weissman (CAMED &#8217;87, GRS &#8217;87, Hon&#8217;23), alongside his research collaborator, Katalin Karik\u00f3, won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in pioneering the technology behind the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Weissman earned both an MD and PhD from Boston University Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine, studying microbiology and immunology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/drew-weissman-wins-nobel-prize-in-medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full story from\u00a0<em>Bostonia <\/em>here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU Alum Drew Weissman Wins 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine for Breakthrough mRNA Technology that led to COVID Vaccines Bostonia;\u00a0October 2, 2023 Drew Weissman (CAMED &#8217;87, GRS &#8217;87, Hon&#8217;23), alongside his research collaborator, Katalin Karik\u00f3, won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in pioneering the technology behind the Pfizer-BioNTech and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20706,"featured_media":95168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7164,795,7154,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95171,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95167\/revisions\/95171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}