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Drew Weissman
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Drew Weissman is a male researcher, biochemist, university teacher, and inventor from the United States. Born in Lexington in 1959, he practices Judaism and speaks English. He is educated at Brandeis University and Boston University. His professional career includes employment at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania. His field of work focuses on messenger RNA and RNA vaccines, with an interest in molecular biology.
Weissman has received several awards, including the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Rosenstiel Award, and the title of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Medicine collection, the National Inventors Hall Of Fame collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He has received one Nobel Prize.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1959-09-07 ) September 7, 1959 (age 66) , Lexington, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Education
- Brandeis University ( BA , MA ) Boston University ( MD , PhD )
- Known for
- Modified mRNA technologies used in COVID-19 vaccines
- Awards
- Rosenstiel Award (2020) Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (2021) VinFuture Prize (2022) Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2022) Harvey Prize (2023) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2023)
- Fields
- Immunology
- Institutions
- University of Pennsylvania
- Thesis
- Regulation of b lymphocytes with reagents that cross-link surface immunoglobulin (1987)
- Doctoral advisor
- Ann Marshak-Rothstein
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2023
“for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Lexington
- Occupation
- inventor
- Educated at
- Boston University
- Employer
- University of Pennsylvania
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Award
- John Scott Award
- Field of work
- RNA vaccine
- Image
- Drew Weissman Life Science medalist.jpg
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- 1959-09-07
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- molecular biology
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Encyclopedic overview
Drew Weissman (born September 7, 1959) is an American physician and immunologist known for his contributions to RNA biology. Weissman is the inaugural Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation, and professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn).
Weissman's work underlies the development of mRNA vaccines, the best known of which are those for COVID-19 produced by BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna. With biochemist Katalin Karikó, Weissman received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2023 "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19". Weissman has been a recipient and co-recipient of numerous awards, also including the prestigious Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. In 2022, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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