Talk:Katalin Karikó/Archive 1

Archive 1

Notability

Kariko passes WP:PROF criteria 1 with very well cited works as shown here, imv Atlantic306 (talk) 01:26, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

maidens name ?

she was not born Kariko, so what is her birth/maiden's name? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.108.129.198 (talk) 22:24, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

She was born like that.(KIENGIR (talk) 20:54, 25 December 2020 (UTC))

Help needed in the RNA vaccine article regarding "Before the COVID-19 pandemic, no mRNA drug or vaccine was licensed for use in humans."?!

Hi, I'm coming in from the article on RNA vaccine where this quote comes from. The issue is that this is an argument that convinces a lot of people who are against the use of the covid-19 vaccines. Can anybody help verify this quote and put it in relation to another quote "The use of RNA vaccines goes back to the early 1990s." - Thy and greetings from Belgium, :) SvenAERTS (talk) 10:00, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

katalin karikó Nationality

katalin karikó Nationality?——209.150.148.39 (talk) 05:42, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

Kariko

It would be helpful, when introducing kariko, this article could appear. 2003:C0:7F1B:EC57:4D0D:44FF:B1BD:F798 (talk) 12:27, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Not enough credit

This page doesn't give Kariko enough credit. It reads as if she is merely the co-worker of Weissman. But she is the one how pushed this topic hard over many years before Weissman would help her with his resources. This effort deserves more highlighting. Suspekt (talk) 11:13, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Frankly, this whole article needs a lot of work. His, actually, is even more barren, if you can believe it. A lot of editing and addition is needed, and the article is badly unclear as of now.

I would also love to see a lot more details on the division of labor that earned her and Weissman the Nobel Prize. What were each one's contributions?

Also, slightly off-topic, holy cow, imagine having a Nobel Prize-winner and a two-time gold medalist in the same family! Imagine winning TWO gold medals and STILL not being the most accomplished person in your family! Red Slash 18:18, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Citizenship

We list her in the infobox as Hungarian and American, but I see nothing in the body of the article supporting the American, and have been unable to find a source saying that she became an American citizen. If there isn't such a source, "American" needs to be removed from the infobox. Yngvadottir (talk) 22:18, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Associated Press: https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prize-medicine-71306bd18785477f3a85a69caa6e09c9 "Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman were cited for contributing “to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health,” according to the panel that awarded the prize in Stockholm." --GRuban (talk) 22:24, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Also https://www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/redaktion/Mitglieder/CV_Karik%C3%B3_Katalin_EN.pdf --GRuban (talk) 22:25, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Wording on vaccine contribution

The messenger RNA-based technology developed by Karikó and the two most effective vaccines based on it, BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna, have formed the basis for the effective and successful fight against SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide...

Coupla things:

• The repetition of "effective" is not ideal
• "...formed the basis..." — the mRNA vaccines were very important, but there were other interventions as well (and for that matter other vaccines)
• "successful" — I think that depends on your success criteria. I suppose complete success would be eradication of the virus, and that obviously has not happened (not that anyone thought it would). Probably another word would be better.

I started trying to edit it, but the correct fix isn't completely obvious, so I set down these thoughts to let it percolate. --Trovatore (talk) 20:04, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Tone

The article either downplays or obscures the rejection of her initial research by the academic community and merely mentions in just a few words that she had trouble finding grants. There’s a lot more to say about her travails as she worked against the tide of the status quo, as seen in the 2021 NYT piece and in comments by others, such as Jonathan Howard at NYU. More should be said about her struggle and adversity to bring this research into reality. Viriditas (talk) 08:12, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Totally agree -- omitting this part of her story is a decision to sanitize the story of institutional obstacles in her path. 64.30.65.45 (talk) 02:12, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

@Tryptofish: A new source was published yesterday:

Binday, Ben (October 26, 2023). "'Not of faculty quality': How Penn mistreated Nobel Prize-winning researcher Katalin Karikó". The Daily Pennsylvanian. Retrieved October 27, 2023. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Viriditas (talk • contribs) 23:25, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

This is on my watchlist. You and I talked about this in user talk, and I'll take a serious look at it eventually. --Tryptofish (talk) 15:05, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

I sincerely hope she told the University of Pennsylvania to go straight to hell.