After shunning scientist, University of Pennsylvania celebrates her Nobel Prize — School that once demoted Katalin Karikó and cut her pay has made millions of dollars from patenting her work::School that once demoted Katalin Karikó and cut her pay has made millions of dollars from patenting her work
The fun, fair world of academia.
Where both students and teachers are somehow exploited by business majors.
Let’s not forget the medical world ignored and sidelined her research for years until suddenly it became necessary. If it weren’t for COVID they’d still be pretending this technology doesn’t exist. I bet they still don’t even want it (case in point: it was developed with the intent of treating HIV and there’s still no HIV treatment in sight) but the CEOs and shit have had to accept it.
Non pay walled version: https://archive.ph/hWXMz
They both saved all of our asses. And our families’ asses. We owe the two scientists a great deal.
Don’t get me wrong U of P is a good school but it is also where trump got his “degree” which I am sure he did 100% of the work to obtain it.
mRNA vaccines are an interesting technology. I consider them to be nanotechnology.
It’s all just physics
IANAL, but seems like this lady should sue them.
If she did the work there they likely own it.
