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(US) How academia shunned the science behind the Covid vaccine – Times Higher Education (Paul Basken | February 2021)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Research Integrity on June 25, 2021
Keywords: Institutional responsibilities, International, Medical research, Peer review, Research integrity, Researcher responsibilities

The Linked Original Item was Posted On February 8, 2021

Infected patient in quarantine lying in bed in hospital, coronavirus concept.

Katalin Karikó’s struggle with mRNA gives universities mandate – if they want – to tackle persistent barriers

As the miracle behind the coronavirus vaccine grows increasingly clear, one US university is left to consider another potentially transformative discovery: why it jilted its inventor.

If it were not for the dogged determination and resilience of Katalin Karikó, we may never have our mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, or at least not so quickly.  She deserves the highest honours.  This case shows how significant institutional and academic politics can be for the road to scientific discovery.  Institutions and funding bodies should reflect upon this and adopt mechanisms to identify when such circumstances are occurring.

Many of the Covid inoculations now being conducted around the world were made possible by techniques painstakingly developed at the University of Pennsylvania for manipulating messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), a molecule in living cells essential to gene-copying processes.

Penn, however, is alleged to have repeatedly thrown roadblocks in the way of a chief innovator, Katalin Karikó, a soft-spoken Hungarian scientist who persisted for decades in her belief that mRNA could be fashioned into a powerful medical tool.

That determination is now paying off not only with vaccines against Covid-19, but with hopes of powerful new mRNA-based cures for cancers and other diseases.

How academia shunned the science behind the Covid vaccine
Katalin Karikó’s struggle with mRNA gives universities mandate – if they want – to tackle persistent barriers

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