A Nobel Prize winner phoned his parents in a heart-warming moment to reveal he had won the prestigious award.
Drew Weissman — along with Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó — won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for helping to develop an mRNA vaccine for COVID-19.
In a touching call, the 64-year-old captured the moment his parents Adele, 90, and Hal, 91, found out their son had taken home the prize.
“I have news,” he said in a video posted by Penn Medicine to Instagram.
“I won the Nobel Prize.”
Both his parents burst into tears of joy and excitement.
“You’re kidding! Congratulations!” his father said.
“Oh my god, Drew! Oh my god!” screamed his mother.
“Oh, how wonderful! I don’t know what to say, I’m ready to collapse on the floor.”
Adele downplayed her son’s pessimism, as she had previously told her parents she wouldn’t win.
“You did! And so young!” he cheered.
Nobel Prize winner Dan Weissman, 64, recorded the moment he told his parents he had won. Penn Medicine In a touching call, Dan Weissman captured the moment his parents Adele, 90, and Hal, 91, learned their son had brought home the prize. “I have news,” he said in a video posted by Penn Medicine to Instagram. “I won the Nobel Prize.” Narrating Both his parents erupted in joy, excited cries rang out from the phone as his father said: “You’re kidding! Congratulations!” Storytelling
“Congratulations, and you deserve it.”
When Weissman was about five years old, his parents visited Stockholm – where the prize was to be awarded – and toured the Nobel auditorium, according to CBS News.
“Reserve these two seats for us,” they said.
“And they remember the story and will tell us every time. So it’s always on their mind,” Weissman, who originally wanted to be an engineer, said.
In a separate video, also posted to Instagram by Penn Medicine, Weissman said the Nobel Prize is “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 to develop an mRNA vaccine 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,” according to Penn Medicine. In 2005, the two scientists discovered messenger RNA “can be modified and effectively delivered into the body to activate a protective immune response.”
“Fifteen years later when the pandemic hit, this success proved invaluable by allowing the rapid development of a COVID mRNA vaccine,” wrote Instagram.
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