ylai@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoUPenn slammed for celebrating Nobel prize of vaccine researcher it once demotedwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1189arrow-down18cross-posted to: academia@mander.xyzscience@mander.xyz
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minus-squareylai@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up37·edit-21 year agoWhat you suggested cannot be further from the truth. The paper that got her the Nobel was from 2005 (https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(05)00211-6, see also cited in https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/), and UPenn claimed in 2013 — at least 7 years later — that she would not be “of faculty quality” (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech).
What you suggested cannot be further from the truth. The paper that got her the Nobel was from 2005 (https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(05)00211-6, see also cited in https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/), and UPenn claimed in 2013 — at least 7 years later — that she would not be “of faculty quality” (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech).