Health Q&A: Nobel Prize-winning researcher and BU grad discusses vaccine development, vaccine hesitancy, and preparing for another pandemic Weissman was jointly awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Katalin Karikó for discoveries which made COVID-19 vaccines possible. Drew Weissman's mRNA research with Katalin Karikó was crucial to the development of COVID-19 vaccines. Peggy Peterson/AP Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world, Dr. Drew Weissman’s contributions to the development of the vaccines remain monumental. Weissman’s medical study brought him to the Boston area. He earned a bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Brandeis University and an MD and...