[alcuadrado]

> Derrick Rossi doesn’t quite see it this way, but he kind of saved the world. > > In 2008, he began researching messenger RNA (mRNA), building on the long-ignored work of Hungarian researcher Katalin Karikó

What?! Katalin Karikó is an SVP at BioNTech, the lab that created Pfizer's vaccine.

[jonstewart]

Yes, and... she was long ignored before that.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-mrna-k...