Being the Change We Need: Recovering from the Pandemic Moving Forward
As part of the 2025 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Aaron Carruthers, Executive Director of the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities, talks about the journey of moving forward after the COVID-19 pandemic. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 40604]
5 Jul 2024
Developing the COVID-19 Vaccines with 2023 Nierenberg Prize Winner Katalin Karikó
Nobel Laureate and biochemist Katalin Karikó's groundbreaking work on COVID-19 vaccines earned her the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2023, alongside co-collaborator Drew Weissman. She's also the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's 2023 recipient of the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. Karikó, an adjunct professor of neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania, is best known for her research on messenger RNA — the genetic material that tells our bodies how to make proteins — and the development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Karikó and Weissman invented the modified mRNA technology used in Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s vaccines to prevent COVID-19 infection. In this program, Karikó talks about the progress and development of mRNA over the past six decades. Karikó will discuss the journey from the discovery of mRNA in 1961 to its groundbreaking milestone as the first FDA-approved mRNA product in the form of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in 2021. Series: "Science in the Public Interest" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39337]
7 Sept 2023
Software Tracking COVID Variants in Real Time is Key to Controlling Outbreak
UC Santa Cruz developed a computational tool known as UShER that enables real-time SARS-CoV-2 tracking and helps researchers identify new lineages of the virus. The easy-to-use tool and online server creates an evolutionary tree that helps scientists understand genomic mutations by creating new branches, showing the relationships between virus samples and the order in which mutations happened along various lineages as the virus evolves. Series: "UC Santa Cruz News" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39241]
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Pandemic Transitions: From Collective Grief to Joy
Published 1 Oct 2021 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's not... the same transition for everyone. You know, it's different in different parts of the country. It's different whether you've been vaccinated or not. So we're at different stages. And but as we're moving through this year and we're meeting these kind of anniversary points where we remember last year where we were at, I think it's important that we mark those anniversary reactions, like the beginning of summer or going back to school next year in the fall, whether it's going back in person or not. But they need to be both celebrations, but allowing for the space for people to deal with grief and kind of... more painful feelings that they've had over the past year, the feelings of loss, the regrets about the changes that have taken place in their life. […]
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