Meet the husband-wife pair behind Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine

(MENAFN – NewsBytes) US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German biotech firm BioNTech announced Monday that their COVID-19 vaccine candidate is over 90% effective based on initial data from a large study.

Companies are the first to show successful data from a large-scale clinical trial for the vaccine.

Behind this initial success is a Turkish immigrant husband-wife couple: Ugur Sahin and Oezlem Tuereci.

In this article Who are Ugur Sahin and Oezlem Tuereci? Sahin and Tuereci met while working together in Homburg The couple founded Ganymed Pharmaceuticals in 2001 Duo founded BioNTech in 2008 From cancer research to COVID-19 vaccine development ‘No safety concerns’ with COVID-19 vaccine Sahin remains ‘incredibly humble and customizable’ Sahin’s aspirations ‘anything but modest’, unlike him

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