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Drew Weissman

Drew Weissman
Weissman in 2022
Born (1959-09-07) September 7, 1959 (age 65)
Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education
Known forModified mRNA technologies used in COVID-19 vaccines
Awards
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
ThesisRegulation of b lymphocytes with reagents that cross-link surface immunoglobulin (1987)
Doctoral advisorAnn Marshak-Rothstein [1]

Drew Weissman (born September 7, 1959) is an American physician and immunologist known for his contributions to RNA biology. Weissman is the inaugural Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation, and professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn).

Weissman's work underlies the development of mRNA vaccines, the best known of which are those for COVID-19 produced by BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna.[2] With biochemist Katalin Karikó, Weissman received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2023 "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19".[3][4][5] Weissman has been a recipient and co-recipient of numerous awards, also including the prestigious Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. In 2022, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine[6] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[7]

  1. ^ "Drew Weissman, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023: Official Interview". YouTube. March 29, 2024.
  2. ^ "This Philly Scientist's Technology Helped Make the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Possible". November 12, 2020. Archived from the original on November 13, 2020.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference NobelPrize.org was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Covid | Premio Nobel de Medicina 2023: qué es el ARN mensajero por el que premiaron a Katalin Karikó y Drew Weissman". BBC News (in Spanish). October 2, 2023. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  5. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  6. ^ "NAM Members Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman Receive Nobel Prize in Medicine". National Academy of Medicine. October 2, 2023.
  7. ^ "Drew Weissman". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. October 5, 2023.

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