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Drew Weissman

ドリュー・ワイスマン　/　どりゅー・わいすまん

American researcher

September 7, 1959 (age 66)　・　Lexington, Massachusetts, United States

Massachusetts
researcher
biochemist
university teacher

My Take

Drew Weissman is one of those names most people never learned, even though his work touched billions of lives. The mRNA breakthroughs he developed at the University of Pennsylvania underpinned the vaccines that defined a generation, and the wall of honors here, from the Breakthrough Prize to the Albany Medical Center Prize, reads like a slow build toward overdue recognition. What strikes me is how little of the personal man is public; almost everything is locked down. He feels like a scientist who let the research speak and stayed out of the spotlight. I respect that quiet, decades-long persistence far more than any flashier fame.

Overview

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).

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Drew Weissman
Name (Japanese): ドリュー・ワイスマン
Reading: どりゅー・わいすまん
Born: September 7, 1959 (age 66)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Virgo / Boar
Origin: Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: researcher / biochemist / university teacher / inventor / immunologist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Brandeis University

Awards & achievements

2021 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
2022 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2020 Rosenstiel Award
2021 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
2022 Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal
2022 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize
2021 Albany Medical Center Prize

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3

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