I'm not sure, this article actually does a good job of presenting both sides of the story, a couple of excerpts:

> she saw that cells two colleagues had worked on for weeks had degraded and were no longer viable and discarded them without asking for permission, startling her colleagues. “This is trash,” Karikó told them.

> while chatting with colleagues at a department Christmas party, a professor mentioned that Karikó was working for him on a project. “You think I’m working for you?” Karikó asked him, livid, according to someone who witnessed the episode. “I’m here to advance science, I’m never, ever, working for you.”

There are certainly other situations where fantastic researchers were mistreated by their institutions until the breakthroughs become too significant, famous, and/or lucrative to ignore.

more so that an underpaid, advanced researcher is more susceptible to manipulation