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  1. Nov 10, 2020 · The German company BioNTech, founded by two scientists, has teamed up with Pfizer on a vaccine that was found to be more than 90 percent effective. Dr. Ugur Sahin, left, and Dr. Özlem...

  2. Bruce Aylward. As COVID-19 spread, BioNTech cofounders Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci had one goal: to make a safe, effective vaccine faster than ever before. In this illuminating conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, the immunologists (and married couple) share the fascinating story of how their decades of mRNA research powered the ...

  3. Aug 3, 2021 · As COVID-19 spread, BioNTech cofounders Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci had one goal: to make a safe, effective vaccine faster than ever before. In this illuminating conversation with head of...

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    Sitting around the breakfast table in January with Dr Tureci — his research partner and wife — the 55-year-old Dr Sahin discussed a report in the Lancet medical journal on a respiratory disease that had run riot through China’s Hubei province. The evidence, he felt, pointed to an alarming rate of infection and the threat of a more rapid spread than...

    Despite the enormous success of Ganymed, which was sold for $1.4bn, in 2016, in Germany’s biggest biotech deal, the couple never gave up on mRNA. While running the business, they continued their research at Mainz university. Under a programme called “NT — Novel Technologies”, they filed dozens of patents which later formed the basis of BioNTech, wh...

    Just three months after Dr Sahin’s Lancet revelation, BioNTech became the first private company in Europe to proceed to clinical trials of a Covid-19 vaccine, after successful results from tests in monkeys and mice. All along, Dr Sahin, who maintained “the virus could be successfully tackled by a vaccine”, believed that with enough goodwill from re...

  4. BioNTech Co-Founders, Professor Ugur Sahin and Dr. Özlem Türeci discuss the state of the pandemic and vaccine development, as well as their personal stories....

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