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Drew Weissman

1959 - Today

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Drew Weissman (born September 7, 1959) is an American physician and immunologist known for his contributions to RNA biology. Weissman is the inaugural Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation, and professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). Weissman's work underlies the development of mRNA vaccines, the best known of which are those for COVID-19 produced by BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna. With biochemist Katalin Karikó, Weissman received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2023 "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Drew Weissman is the 132nd most popular physician (up from 288th in 2019), the 1,066th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,506th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Drew Weissman ranks 132 out of 726. Before him are Hans Selye, Amenmesse, Elizabeth Blackwell, Robin Warren, William T. G. Morton, and Haldan Keffer Hartline. After him are Hinrich Lichtenstein, Hans Asperger, George Whipple, Baruj Benacerraf, Francis Peyton Rous, and Trota of Salerno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Drew Weissman ranks 20. Before him are Evo Morales, Jon Fosse, Bryan Adams, Hugh Laurie, Robert Smith, and Milorad Dodik. After him are Bernd Schuster, Sting, Abdulla Yameen, Alberto Fernández, Gerhard Berger, and Sean Bean.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Drew Weissman ranks 1,066 out of 20,380. Before him are Jonathan Banks (1947), John Hopfield (1933), Paul Tibbets (1915), H. L. Mencken (1880), Rick Rubin (1963), and Stanley Tucci (1960). After him are Ali MacGraw (1939), Alan Arkin (1934), Wallace Carothers (1896), Victor Fleming (1889), John Browning (1855), and Kamehameha I (1758).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Drew Weissman ranks 15. Before him are Harvey J. Alter (1935), Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888), Stanley Cohen (1922), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), William T. G. Morton (1819), and Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903). After him are George Whipple (1878), Francis Peyton Rous (1879), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), George H. Hitchings (1905), William Kaelin Jr. (1957), and Ferid Murad (1936).

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