Coronavirus: The married couple behind the successful Pfizer COVID vaccine

- SKY NEWS - Nov 10, 2020 -

Amy Coles -

Ugur Sahin is chief executive and co-founder of the German biotech firm

Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci founded the pharmaceutical company BioNTech which has developed the 90% effective coronavirus vaccine.

News that a Pfizer vaccine is 90% effective against COVID-19 has been heralded as a turning point in the global fight against the virus.

But while the vaccine has been bankrolled by the American pharmaceutical giant, the science itself is the work of BioNTech, a German company founded by married couple and dedicated physicians Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci.

Together, they are being hailed as the brains that allowed the potentially transformative coronavirus vaccine to come about.

Scientists and entrepreneurs Professor Sahin, 55, and Dr Tureci, 53, are now among the 100 richest Germans, with the value of their company BioNTech soaring to $21bn (£16bn) in the wake of the vaccine breakthrough.

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