"This work had a huge impact on the pandemic." Interview about the 2023 medicine prize.

Professor Qiang Pan-Hammarström (professor of clinical immunology, member of the Nobel Assembly) was interviewed by freelance journalist Lotta Fredholm.

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.