Photographic Moment

Former NIAID Fellow Drew Weissman Earns a 2023 Nobel Prize

You may recognize a few faces in this 1992 photograph of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, then led by Anthony Fauci. Drew Weissman, co-winner with Katalin Karikó of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19,” is seated crosslegged in the first row, third from the right. Weissman was a NIAID fellow from 1991 to 1993. More than 20 NIH fellows have gone on to win a Nobel Prize.

NIH PIs: Take those lab photos! Save those lab photos! Send those lab photo to the Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum! They are filled with diamonds in the rough, waiting to shine.