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Hungarian American biochemist Katalin Kati Karik became fascinated by science as a child and grew up determined to find a way to use messenger RNAa copy of a part of DNA that provides cells with instructions to make proteinsto help fight illness An mRNA vaccine had never been made before and she faced frequent criticism and was told by other scientists she would never succeed Karik refused to give up her research and when the COVID19 pandemic hit she played a critical role in developing the successful PfizerBioNTech mRNA vaccine faster than any other vaccine in history