evidence: Future Look: How COVID-19 Vaccines Are Accelerating New Cancer Treatments Join CRI for an in-depth look into the newest and most exciting approach to vaccination in our lifetime…mRNA vaccines. This exclusive, invitation-only event celebrates the four key scientists whose research has led to the first two lifesaving mRNA vaccines now being used in the global fight against COVID-19. On November 10, CRI will bestow the 2021 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology on Katelin Karikó, PhD, of BioNTech and the University of Pennsylvania, Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania, and BioNTech co-founders Ugur Sahin, MD, PhD, and Özlem Türeci, MD, PhD Alice Park of TIME Magazine will moderate a historic joint interview with the honorees who will share their thoughts on how mRNA vaccine technology will transform cancer treatment in the future. MEET THE 2021 COLEY AWARD WINNERS Katalin Karikó graduated from University of Szeged, Hungary in 1978, and received a doctoral degree in biochemistry from the same university in 1982.