Antony Fairbanks

Researcher

Antony Fairbanks is an organic chemist with research interests focussed on carbohydrate chemistry and biology. He has authored/co-authored 170 scientific publications and in 2018 was awarded the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Maurice Wilkins Centre Award for Chemical Science.

Life

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: mRNA wins at last

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

Antony Fairbanks

Education

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022

The Nobel committee awarded the 2022 prize in equal shares to Barry Sharpless, Morten Meldal and Carolyn Bertozzi, for “an ingenious method of building molecules”, namely the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.

Antony Fairbanks

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Antony Fairbanks

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: mRNA wins at last

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022

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