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It actually goes back even further to Ingmar Hoerr (who went on to found CureVac, producing now a temperature stable SARS-COV2 vaccine) who accidentally discovered that RNA can be stabilized using liposomes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingmar_Hoerr

https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/curevac-gruender-und-mrna-pion...