11563 - From “Not Good Enough” to Nobel Prize Winner – Yale Scientific Magazine
Early in her career, Katalin Karikó was confronted with a dilemma. As a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, she had struggled to secure grant money and was faced with an ultimatum: either leave the university and abandon any hopes of becoming a tenured faculty member, or receive a demotion, setting her career back by years. It seemed that Karikó’s deep interest in mRNA would soon see its end.