After shunning scientist, University of Pennsylvania celebrates her Nobel Prize — School that once demoted Katalin Karikó and cut her pay has made millions of dollars from patenting her work::School that once demoted Katalin Karikó and cut her pay has made millions of dollars from patenting her work
The fun, fair world of academia.
Where both students and teachers are somehow exploited by business majors.
Business majors are ruining the world one quarter at a time.
But profits are up 5%!
They’ll poison you over pennies.
This hits hard even as an engineer working in product development.
Non pay walled version: https://archive.ph/hWXMz
They both saved all of our asses. And our families’ asses. We owe the two scientists a great deal.
IANAL, but seems like this lady should sue them.
If she did the work there they likely own it.
she left after they gave her an ultimatum of having to take a pay cut if she wanted to continue. i am not sure if she is a founder but she worked at BioNTech , so it’s not owned by the university. I don’t think it’s illegal but this is the time she should be publicizing the story to shame them and divert talent to competing universities.
Good that she had the determination to continue. The great thing is that she was vindicated because it turned out she was right. In science being right is what ultimately matters.
I’m guessing she will never have similar problems in the future.
She may not, but i wonder how many other incredible technologies are being held back for effectively political reasons.
At least it’s not as bad as when Galileo was threatened on his life, and held in house arrest by the Catholic church, for suggesting that the earth is not the center of the universe.
Sometimes breakthroughs require a lot of determination, way beyond just the science. And very often it’s particularly hard to get funding, because nobody of influence believe the new idea. That’s the inertia of everything and it’s everywhere.
Politics, science, economy, culture and everything social.
Let’s not forget the medical world ignored and sidelined her research for years until suddenly it became necessary. If it weren’t for COVID they’d still be pretending this technology doesn’t exist. I bet they still don’t even want it (case in point: it was developed with the intent of treating HIV and there’s still no HIV treatment in sight) but the CEOs and shit have had to accept it.
Don’t get me wrong U of P is a good school but it is also where trump got his “degree” which I am sure he did 100% of the work to obtain it.
mRNA vaccines are an interesting technology. I consider them to be nanotechnology.
It’s all just physics
