Nobel announcements continue with the physics prize on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the economics award on October 9.
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00:00 Hungarian Katalin Karikó and America's Drew Weissman have been awarded this year's Nobel
00:07 Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
00:12 The two researchers were honored at the Sweden's Karolinska Institute for their discoveries
00:17 that made it possible to develop vaccines against COVID-19, the infection that brought
00:22 the world to a standstill for the best of two years.
00:28 It was in 2020 Katalin Karikó spoke to Euronews about her work and the obstacles that lied
00:33 ahead for her in the BioNTech laboratories.
00:38 The Hungarian researcher, who has lived in the US since the 1980s, told us she wanted
00:42 to focus on developing ribonucleic acid, known as RNA, to heal wounds and bones or even help
00:48 cure cancer patients.
00:51 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded since 1901.
00:58 (whooshing)