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hitchhiker) wrote2023-10-02 05:32 pm
hitchhiker) wrote2023-10-02 05:32 pm
mic drop
In 2013—after enduring multiple professional setbacks, one denied grant after another, and a demotion at the institution to which she’d been devoted for decades—Katalin Karikó, Ph.D., walked out of her lab at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine for the last time.
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That morning at the lab, Karikó’s old boss had come to see her off. She did not tell him what a terrible mistake he was making in letting her leave. She didn’t gloat about her future at BioNTech, a pharmaceuticals firm that millions now associate with lifesaving vaccines but was then a relative upstart in the field. Instead the woman who had bounced from department to department, with no tenure prospects and never earning over $60,000 a year, said with total confidence: “In the future, this lab will be a museum. Don’t touch it.”
https://www.glamour.com/story/katalin-kariko-biontech-women-of-year-2021
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And I wonder whether people still blithely claim that "markets" (more often organizations like universities or firms) are really really good at selecting for "quality." I haven't heard so much of it over the past decade or so, but that's also related to whom I encounter.
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