The messenger's marathon is a book depicting the research efforts from mRNA discovery by François Jacob and François Gros (publications in 1961) up to the pioneers of mRNA vaccines. Pierre Meulien / Frédéric Martinon 1993 Hans-Georg Rammensee / Ingmar Hoerr 1998 Steve Pascolo - first vaccines on humans Curevac (1998-2006) Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman mRNA modification Ugur Sahin et Özlem Türeci at BioNTech