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Breaking Through
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  • Published: 10 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529936391
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $27.99
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Breaking Through

My Life In Science

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10 June 2025
EBook
7 Dec 2023
Audiobook
7 Dec 2023
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How one woman's extraordinary determination saved millions of lives: the inspiring memoir from the Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Katalin Karikó began life as a butcher’s daughter in communist Hungary. Raised in a one-room home of clay and straw with no running water, she saw potential everywhere: in the promise of a seed, in the alchemy of soap, in the scarlet of a carcass.

Breaking Through is the extraordinary story of her courageous determination – first to become a scientist, and then to unlock an elusive molecule she believed could revolutionise medicine. Others disagreed, and for decades she endured demotions, discrimination and even threats of deportation. Yet Karikó persevered, ultimately making a world-shifting discovery: the mRNA vaccine technology that saved millions of lives and will transform healthcare forever.
  • Published: 10 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529936391
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the author

Katalin Karikó

Katalin Karikó is a biochemist and winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Her pioneering research was the foundation of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and paves the way for a host of breakthrough treatments for HIV, malaria and other life-threatening diseases. Born in Hungary, she has lived and worked for most of her adult life in the USA. Since 2020, she has been awarded over a hundred prizes in recognition of her work; two children’s books have been written about her and a minor planet named after her. Now an honorary professor at numerous universities around the world, she continues in her work to advance new medical treatments where the need is most urgent. She and her husband Béla are the parents of two-time Olympic rowing champion Susan Francia.

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