Listen: Is the Nobel committee evolving? Plus, preventing public health’s wiliest virus

Listen: Is the Nobel committee evolving? Will we ever have an HIV vaccine?

Oct 6, 2023 - 20:00
Listen: Is the Nobel committee evolving? Plus, preventing public health’s wiliest virus

Will we ever get an HIV vaccine? And is the oft-criticized institution that awards the Nobel Prize each year showing signs of evolution?

We cover all that and more this week on “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech podcast. It’s Nobel week on the podcast, and reporter Megan Molteni details the unique story of this year’s winners for medicine, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. Then, our colleague Jason Mast joins us to explain the scientific and ethical quandaries facing the teams attempting to develop HIV vaccines. 

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