June 23, 2021
Scientists behind Covid-19 vaccines win Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award
La Prensa Latina Media, June 23, 2021
Scientists behind Covid-19 vaccines win Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award
Seven scientists involved in the development of approved Covid-19 vaccines were on Wednesday granted the prestigious Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. The award went to Spanish physicist Miguel Echenique, Hungarian biologist Katalin Karikó, American immunologist Drew Weissman, German doctors Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci, Canadian biologist Derrick Rossi, British vaccinologist Sarah Gilbert and American biochemist Philip Felgner, [UCI physiology & biophysics professor in residence].