Nobel Prize-winning scientist Katalin Karikó will deliver keynote speech at Hopkins commencement ceremony
Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Katalin Karikó will be the keynote speaker at Johns Hopkins University's Commencement ceremony on May 21. Karikó, a native of Hungary, will also receive an honorary degree for her research on mRNA that helped save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Katalin Karikó, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, will deliver the keynote speech at Johns Hopkins University's Commencement ceremony on May 21. She will also receive an honorary degree for her research on messenger RNA (mRNA). Karikó, 71, emigrated to the United States from Hungary in 1985. Her work on mRNA helped save millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Karikó faced numerous obstacles in her career, including having her grant proposals rejected and being demoted from her research faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania. She will be honored alongside five other individuals, including CNN news anchor Wolf Blitzer and artist Amy Sherald.
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