Awards and honors
2024 Double Helix Medal – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSH) - New York
2024 Helen Dean King Award – The Wistar Institute - Philadelphia
2024 Distinguished Medical Science Award – Friends of the National Library of Medicine’s - Bethesda (MD)
2024 The Hungarian Corvin Chain Award – Hungarian Government
2024 Libri Literary Prize – Libri-Bookline Zrt. - Budapest
2024 Award for Global Health – World Health Organization (WHO) - Genf
2024 Honorary Doctor of Science Degree – New York University (NYU)
2024 Honorary Doctor of Science Degree – Stony Brook University (SUNY) – New York
2024 Nierenberg Prize 2023 – Scripps Institution of Oceanography - UC San Diego
2024 Appointment of ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy for Life – Pontifical Academy for Live
2024 Paul Karrer Award Medal – University of Zurich (UZH) - Department of Chemistry
2023 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 – The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm)
2023 The Fries Prize for Improving Health – The CDC Foundation - (Atlanta - Georgia)
2023 The Bayh-Dole Coalition American Innovator Award – The Bayh-Dole Coalition (Washington)
2023 Harvey Prize – Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa)
2023 Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen – Hungarian Government
2023 Honorary Doctor of Science Degree – The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
2023 EMBO Member - European Molecular Biology Organization (Heidelberg, Germany)
2023 "John von Neumann” Professor title – John von Neumann Computer Society (NJSZT) - Budapest University of Technology and Economincs (BME)
2023 Honorary Doctor of Science Degree – Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
2023 Honorary Doctor of Science Degree – Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
2023 Honorary Doctor of Science Degree – Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
2023 Genius Award – Liberty Science Center (LSC) (Jersey City, NJ)
2023 Jiménez Díaz Commemorative Lecture Prize – The Fundación Conchita Rábago (Madrid)
2023 Honorary Doctor of Science Degree – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2023 The Jonathan E. Rhoads Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Medicine – American Philosophical Society (APS) - Philadelphia College of Physicians and our Department of Surgery
2023 Honorary Degree – The University College Cork (Ireland)
2023 Dawson Prize in Genetics – Trinity College - The University of Dublin (Ireland)
2023 German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Halle) - Katalin Karikó - Member of the Leopoldina - Member profile
2023 The Meyenburg Prize - 2020/2021 – German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) (Heidelberg)
2023 National Inventors Hall of Fame - 2023 – National Inventors Hall of Fame (Washington)
2023 Cameron Prize for Therapeutics – University of Edinburgh
2022 Semmelweis Budapest Award – Semmelweis University
2022 The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award (MBRKA) – His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (United Arab Emirates - UAE, Dubai)
2022 Peter Speiser Award – Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of ETH (Zürich)
2022 German Immunology Prize – German Society of Immunology - DGfI (Berlin)
2022 Honorary Citizen of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County – Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Assembly (Hungary)
2022 Doctor Honoris Causa – Eötvös Lóránd University
2022 European Inventor Award – European Patent Office (EPO) (München)
2022 Tang Prize – The Tang Prize Foundation (Taipei City)
2022 Honorary Degree – The Rockefeller University (New York)
2022 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize – The Rockefeller University
2022 Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine – The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research (New York)
2022 Honorary Degree – Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
2022 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize – Warren Alpert Foundation (Providence - Rhode Island)
2022 Honorary Degree – Tel Aviv University (TAU)
2022 Empowering Research and Discovery Award – National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI) - Philadelphia
2022 Docteure Honoris Causa – Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
2022 Canada Gairdner Internatioanl Award – The Gairdner Foundation (Toronto)
2022 BIAL Award in Biomedicine 2021 – BIAL Foundation
2022 Grand Prize of the Pro Szeged Foundation – Pro Szeged Foundation (Hungary)
2022 Werner von Siemens Ring – Werner Siemens Foundation
2022 Golden Arrow Awards – Vienna Congress com.sult
2022 2021 AAAS Honorary Fellows - Section on Biological Sciences – The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2022 Frontiers of Knowledge Awards – The BBVA Foundation
2022 Park MahnHoon Award – International Vaccine Institute (IVI) - National University (Seoul, South Korea)
2022 Japan International Prize – The Japan Prize Foundation
2022 Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal – National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
2022 VinFuture Grand Prize – VinFuture Foundation
2022 Science for the Future Solvay Prize – Solvay
2022 Foreign Associate Member – French Academy of Sciences
2022 Camurus Lipid Science Prize – Swedish Camurus Lipid Research Foundation
2022 Helmholtz Medal – Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2022 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science – The Franklin Institute
2022 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards – The L'Oréal Foundation
2022 Pioneer Award – The Institute for Precision Medicine (IPM) – Precision Medicine World Conference 2022 (PMWC)
2022 Jeantet-Collen Prize for Translational Medicine – Louis-Jeantet Foundation
2022 Novo Nordisk Prize – The Novo Nordisk Foundation
2022 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize – Paul Ehrlich Foundation
2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences – Breakthrough Prize Foundation
2022 Vilcek Prize for Excellence in Biotechnology – The Vilcek Foundation
2021 Golden Plate Award 2021 – The American Academy of Achievement
2021 Heroes of the Year 2021 – Time Magazin
2021 Time100. The Most Influential People 2021 - Innovators – Time Magazin
2021 Honorary Degree in Medicine from Humanitas University – Humanitas University (Milano)
2021 Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine – Faculty of Medicine of the University of Debrecen (Hungary)
2021 John Scott Award – Board of Directors of City Trusts of Philadelphia
2021 The German Future Prize – Prize of the Federal President for Technology and Innovation
2021 The Prince Mahidol Award – Prince Mahidol Award Foundation
2021 New York Academy of Medicine Annual Awards – New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM)
2021 Woman of the Year – Glamour Awards
2021 William B. Coley Award – Cancer Research Institut (CRI)
2021 Bolyai Prize – Bolyai Foundation (Hungary)
2021 Theodor Boveri Prize – University of Würzburg
2021 Princess Marina Sturdza Award – Emerging Europe (London)
2021 The Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research – Albany Medical Center (AMC)
2021 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize – Columbia University
2021 Great Immigrants Award – The Carnegie Foundation
2021 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research – The Princess of Asturias Foundation
2021 The Grande Médaille – French Academy of Sciences
2021 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award – Lasker Foundation
2021 Duke awards honorary degrees : Doctor of Science degrees – Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
2021 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research – Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
2021 The Keio Medical Science Prize – Keio University Medical Science Fund
2021 Reichstein Medal – Swiss Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (SAPhS)
2021 Jedlik Ányos Award – Hungarian Intellectual Property Office (Hungary)
2021 Doctor Honoris Causa – University of Szeged (Hungary)
2021 Bill Foege Global Health Award – MAP International
2021 Golden Goose Award – The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2021 Wilhelm Exner Medal – Austrian Trade Association
2021 The Outstanding Achievement in Public Health Awards - The Building the Foundation Award – Research!America
2021 Honorary Citizen of Szeged – City of Szeged (Hungary)
2021 Straub Plakett – Biological Research Centre (Szeged, Hungary)
2021 Semmelweis Ignác Medal and Award - Hungarian Government
2021 Honorary Citizen of Csongrád-Csanád County – Csongrád-Csanád County Assembly (Hungary)
2021 Széchenyi Prize – Hungarian Government
2020 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Medical Science – Brandeis University
2020 Honorary Citizen of Kisújszállás – Municipality of Kisújszállás (Hungary)
2009 Honorary Citizen title of Kisújszállás – Municipality of Kisújszállás (Hungary)
1978-80 Study Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1974-78 Study Award of the Hungarian People's Republic
1973 Gusztav Jermy Award – Móricz Zsigmond High School, Kisújszállás (Hungary)