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A Penn official once told Katalin Karikó she was ‘not of faculty quality.’ Her work there just won a Nobel Prize.

Penn rejected scientist Katalin Karikó for a tenure-track post, telling her that she didn’t measure up. Her work helped pave the way to COVID vaccines.

Katalin Karikó (red jacket) is swarmed by selfie-seeking “flash mob” at the University of Pennsylvania Monday when she and colleague Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in medicine.
Katalin Karikó (red jacket) is swarmed by selfie-seeking “flash mob” at the University of Pennsylvania Monday when she and colleague Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in medicine.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
    by Tom Avril
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