Uğur Şahin

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Gender	Male
Age	58
Date of birth	September 19,1965
Zodiac sign	Virgo
Born	Iskenderun
Net worth	Forbes
Spouse	Özlem Türeci
Known for	BioNTech
Education	Saarland University
Nationality	German
	Turkish
Awards	Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research
Books	The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
Date of Reg.	2022-02-07 17:51:28
Date of Upd.	2023-04-20 22:02:29
ID	3445151

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Uğur Şahin Life story

Uğur Şahin is a German oncologist and immunologist. He is the founder and CEO of BioNTech, which developed one of the major vaccines against COVID-19. His main fields of research are cancer research and immunology. Şahin's family, originally from Turkey, moved to Germany when he was four years old.

BioNTech: Could Covid vaccine technology crack cancer?

Oct 15,2022 1:11 pm

... Professors Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci co-founded the German company BioNTech in 2008, exploring new technology involving messenger RNA (mRNA), to treat cancer...