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On a warm September day in Berlin, Hungarian biochemist Katilin Kadiqo walks into the nearly century-old auditorium at Berlin's

Shedite Hospital. She takes her seat in the front row of a World Health Organization event.

She's surrounded by politicians and public health leaders.

Just a year earlier, there would have been little reason for Catalan to be there at all.

Few of the other guests would have even known her name.

But now, she's a guest of honor.

Catalan spent her life researching Messenger RNA, the tiny postal workers that carry genetic instructions inside cells.

For decades, few paid attention to what she found.

That has now changed.

At the event in September, German Chancellor Angela Merkel praises Catalan for not giving up.

The German chancellor tells the audience that Catalan's 30 years of effort laid the groundwork

for our current fight against COVID-19.

In her own remarks, Katalin says her collaborators deserve credit too.

First of all, I would like to correct you because there are many, many people contributed to it.

And I was just one of them, and I am glad that I also could have.

I am just representing all of those fellow scientists.

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