Friday, December 18, 2020 by Joel Rose (NPR)
Katalin Karikó works at BioNTech, the company that partnered with Pfizer to make the first COVID-19 vaccine to get emergency authorization in the U.S.
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Hungarian-born scientist Katalin Karikó believed in the potential of messenger RNA the genetic molecule at the heart of two new COVID-19 vaccines even when almost no one else did.
Karikó began working with RNA as a student in Hungary. When funding for her job there ran out, Kariko immigrated to Philadelphia in 1985. Over the years, she’s been rejected for grant after grant, threatened with deportation and demoted from her faculty job by a university that saw her research as a dead end.
If COVID-19 Vaccines Bring An End To The Pandemic, America Has Immigrants To Thank
By Joel Rose
December 18, 2020
Hungarian-born scientist Katalin Karikó believed in the potential of messenger RNA the genetic molecule at the heart of two new COVID-19 vaccines even when almost no one else did.
Karikó began working with RNA as a student in Hungary. When funding for her job there ran out, Kariko immigrated to Philadelphia in 1985. Over the years, she’s been rejected for grant after grant, threatened with deportation and demoted from her faculty job by a university that saw her research as a dead end.
December 17, 2020
Tuskegee University President Dr. Lily D. McNair has been named to the Board of Directors for BIO Alabama. BIO Alabama is the leading advocate for Alabama s bioeconomy which represents Alabama s bio related industries, research scientists, clinicians and business professionals who are working together to foster, develop and support the life sciences in Alabama. BIO Alabama is the state affiliate in Alabama of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), the preeminent national association for biotechnology companies.
McNair joins a long list of executives that represent several industries as well as universities located in the state of Alabama. “It is important that Tuskegee University have representation when it comes to the bioscience industry. Our faculty members are performing groundbreaking research in many disciplines on our campus and this membership allows us to have access to valuable resources and opportunities.” said McNair.
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The healthcare industry has six big challenges ahead in 2021: rightsizing after the telehealth explosion; adjusting to changing clinical trials; encouraging digital relationships that ease physician burdens; forecasting for an uncertain 2021; reshaping health portfolios for growth; and building a resilient and responsive supply chain for long-term health.
For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. HRI also interviewed numerous thought leaders from throughout the industry and frontline clinicians to understand their on-the-ground experiences during a historic year.
“While in 2020 many healthcare organizations saw their financial plans obliterated, patient behaviors radically shift and virtual care explode, in 2021 they will work to put the system back together,” said PwC
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