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03532aam a22004218i 4500 001 88975792495811EE9228709642ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230902011803 008 230525s2023 nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2023020863 020 $a 0593443160 020 $a 9780593443163 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 082 00 $a 572.092 $b B $2 23/eng/20230601 100 1 $a Karikao, Katalin, $e author. 245 10 $a Breaking through / $b My Life in Science $c by Dr. Katalin Karikao. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2310 264 1 $a New York : $b Crown, $c [2023] 300 $a pages cm 520 $a "A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines. Katalin Karikao had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikao grew up in a one-room home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination eventually brought her to the United States, where she arrived as a postdoctoral fellow in 1985 with $1,200 sewn into her toddler's teddy bear and a dream to remake medicine. Karikao worked in obscurity, battled cockroaches in a windowless lab, and faced outright derision and even deportation threatsfrom her bosses and colleagues. She balked as prestigious research institutions increasingly conflated science and money. Despite setbacks, she never wavered in her belief that an ephemeral and underappreciated molecule called messenger RNA could change the world. Karikao believed that someday mRNA would transform ordinary cells into tiny factories capable of producing their own medicines on demand. She sacrificed nearly everything for this dream, but the obstacles she faced only motivated her, and eventually she succeeded. Karikao's three-decades-long investigation into mRNA would lead to a staggering achievement: vaccines that protected millions of people from the most dire consequences of COVID-19. These vaccines are just the beginning of mRNA's potential. Today, the medical community eagerly awaits more mRNA vaccines-for the flu, HIV, and other emerging infectious diseases. Breaking Through isn't just the story of an extraordinary woman-it's an indictment of closed-minded thinking and a testament to one woman's commitment to laboring intensely in obscurity-knowing she might never be recognized in a culture that is more driven by prestige, power, and privilege-because she believed her work would save lives"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Karikao, Katalin. 650 0 $a Women biochemists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Biochemists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women immigrants $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Immigrants $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Hungarian Americans $v Biography. 650 0 $a Hungarians $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a mRNA vaccines $x Development. 650 0 $a COVID-19 vaccines $x Development. 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Karikao, Katalin. $t Breaking through $b First edition. $d New York : Crown, [2023] $z 9780593443170 $w (DLC) 2023020864 941 $a 4 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702025007.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240524010237.0 952 $l VGPC334 $d 20240302013507.0 952 $l JKPC771 $d 20240116011101.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=88975792495811EE9228709642ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search