A Nobel Prize winner called his parents in a touching moment to reveal he had won the prestigious prize.
Drew Weissman, along with Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for helping develop mRNA vaccines for COVID-19.
In a touching call, the 64-year-old filmed the moment his parents Adele, 90, and Hal, 91, found out their son had taken home the award.
“I have some news,” he said in a video posted by Penn Medicine on Instagram.
“I won the Nobel Prize.”
Their parents burst into screams of joy and excitement.
“Are you kidding! “Congratulations!” His father said.
“Oh my God, Drew! “Oh my God!” His mother screamed.
“Oh, how fabulous! “I don’t know what to say, I’m about to fall to the ground.”
Adele mocked the pessimism of her son, who had previously told his parents that he was not going to win.
“You did it! And so young!” she encouraged.
Nobel laureate Dan Weissman, 64, filmed the moment he told his parents he had won. Penn Medicine In a moving call, Dan Weissman filmed the moment his parents Adele, 90, and Hal, 91, learned that his son had taken home the award. “I have some news,” he said in a video posted by Penn Medicine on Instagram. “I won the Nobel Prize.” Storyful Both parents burst out with joy, excited shouts could be heard from the phone when his father said, “You’re kidding! Congratulations!”
“Congratulations and you deserved it.”
When Weissman was about five years old, his parents visited Stockholm, where the prize will be awarded, and visited the Nobel auditorium, according to CBS News.
“Reserve these two seats for us,” they said.
“And they remember that story and told it to us from time to time. So they always had it in mind,” said Weissman, who originally wanted to be an engineer.
In a separate video, also posted on Instagram by Penn Medicine, Weissman noted that the Nobel Prize was “the most important award a scientist can achieve.”
“It’s an incredible honor,” he said.
Drew Weissman, along with Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for helping develop mRNA vaccines for COVID-19. Penn Medicine scientists had five different mRNA vaccines in the works before the COVID-19 pandemic and their work helped speed up the process. Peggy Peterson/Penn Medicine
Weissman and Karikó met by “chance” in the late 1990s and “began investigating mRNA as a potential therapeutic treatment,” according to Penn Medicine. In 2005, the two scientists discovered that messenger RNA “could be modified and effectively delivered to the body to activate a protective immune response.”
“Fifteen years later, when the pandemic hit, this breakthrough proved invaluable in enabling the rapid development of mRNA COVID vaccines,” the Instagram post read.
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