The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
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Date | 2 October 2023 |
Location | Stockholm |
Country | Sweden |
Presented by | Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet |
Hosted by | Thomas Perlmann |
Reward(s) | 11 million SEK (2023)[1] |
First awarded | 1901 |
Website | 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó (born 1955) and Drew Weissman (born 1959) "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19".[2][3]