3000 Forint mRNA Vaccines

Hungary issued this coin to mark its role in mRNA vaccine development — a claim grounded in the work of biochemist Katalin Karikó, whose decades of research on mRNA modification, largely conducted at the University of Pennsylvania after she was demoted and nearly defunded, formed the platform on which the BNT162b2 vaccine was built. She shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Drew Weissman for that work. The Magyar Nemzeti Bank has a well-established commemorative program in copper-nickel at this weight, typically targeting scientific and cultural themes for domestic circulation premiums.