The Dalai Lama congratulates the winners of this year Nobel Prize in medicine

RELIGIONS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – His Holiness the Dalai Lama extended his congratulations to Drew Weissman and Katalin Kariko, winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Medicine.

The Tibet Post reported his Holiness wrote: “I applaud your achievement and the way you have made your lives meaningful through dedicated service for the benefit of others.”

His Holiness Dalai Lama while congratulating them on Octorber 3, 2023, he wrote that “the path-breaking technology that the two of you developed, led to the production of the mRNA Covid vaccines. Your work set an example of how scientific research can make a real contribution to the well-being of humanity at large. Your research, begun before the Covid pandemic occurred, saved a vast number of lives throughout the world. I applaud your achievement and the way you have made your lives meaningful through dedicated service for the benefit of others.”

“Today, we are reminded daily how deeply interconnected our world has become and the vitally important role the scientific community can play in making it a better, safer place for us all,” His Holiness mentioned.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama has often stressed the need to develop a scientific temperament for the greater good of society. This achievement is further proof of his love for science.

American Drew Weissman, Roberts Family Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Hungarian Katalin Kariko, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, have won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their breakthroughs related to nucleoside base modifications, which paved the way for the creation of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. Their discoveries were decisive for the development of effective mRNA vaccines against Covid-19.

The winners have made a significant contribution to the rapid development of vaccines in the context of one of the greatest threats to human health in contemporary history.