Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

Item Information

		Copy / Holding Information
		Publisher Weekly Review
		Table of Contents
		More Content


	More by this author
		Karikó, Katalin.

	Subjects
		Karikó, Katalin.
		Women biochemists -- United States -- Biography.
		Biochemists -- United States -- Biography.
		Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
		Immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
		Hungarian Americans -- Biography.
		Hungarians -- United States -- Biography.
		mRNA vaccines -- Development.
		COVID-19 vaccines -- Development.

	Browse Catalog
		by author:
		Karikó, Katalin.

		by title:
		Breaking through : m...

		by call number:
		572.092 K183b

	Search the Web
		Karikó, Katalin.
		Karikó, Katalin.
		Women biochemists -- United States -- Biography.
		Biochemists -- United States -- Biography.
		Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
		Immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
		Hungarian Americans -- Biography.
		Hungarians -- United States -- Biography.
		mRNA vaccines -- Development.
		COVID-19 vaccines -- Development.


	MARC Display

Breaking through : my life in science / Katalin Karikó.

by Karikó, Katalin.

View full image

Karikó, Katalin.

Women biochemists -- United States -- Biography.

Biochemists -- United States -- Biography.

Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography.

Immigrants -- United States -- Biography.

Hungarian Americans -- Biography.

Hungarians -- United States -- Biography.

mRNA vaccines -- Development.

COVID-19 vaccines -- Development.

9780593443163 (hc)

xiv, 320 p., 8 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

"A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines. Katalin Karikó had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karik©đ grew up in a one-room home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination eventually brought her to the United States, where she arrived as a postdoctoral fellow in 1985 with $1,200 sewn into her toddler's teddy bear and a dream to remake medicine. Karikó worked in obscurity, battled cockroaches in a windowless lab, and faced outright derision and even deportation threats from her bosses and colleagues. She balked as prestigious research institutions increasingly conflated science and money. Despite setbacks, she never wavered in her belief that an ephemeral and underappreciated molecule called messenger RNA could change the world. Karikó believed that someday mRNA would transform ordinary cells into tiny factories capable of producing their own medicines on demand. She sacrificed nearly everything for this dream, but the obstacles she faced only motivated her, and eventually she succeeded. Karik©đ's three-decades-long investigation into mRNA would lead to a staggering achievement: vaccines that protected millions of people from the most dire consequences of COVID-19. These vaccines are just the beginning of mRNA's potential. Today, the medical community eagerly awaits more mRNA vaccines -- for the flu, HIV, and other emerging infectious diseases. Breaking Through isn't just the story of an extraordinary woman-it's an indictment of closed-minded thinking and a testament to one woman's commitment to laboring intensely in obscurity-knowing she might never be recognized in a culture that is more driven by prestige, power, and privilege-because she believed her work would save lives"--Publisher.

Autobiographies.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal