Uğur Şahin
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Şahin's family, originally from Turkey, moved to Germany when he was four years old. He grew up in Cologne and studied medicine at the University of Cologne, completing a doctoral thesis there in cancer immunotherapy. He initially remained in academia, in patient care as an oncohematology physician and conducting research at university hospitals in Saarland and Zürich. He founded a research group at the University of Mainz in 2000 and became a professor of experimental oncology in 2006.
In 2001, while maintaining his position at the University of Mainz, Şahin began to engage in entrepreneurial activities, co-founding two pharmaceutical companies, in 2001 and 2008, with his partner and spouse Özlem Türeci. The second of these companies, BioNTech, together with Pfizer Inc, developed one of the major vaccines used to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. As a result of the company's increase in value, Şahin and Türeci became the first Germans with Turkish roots among Germany's 100 wealthiest people. Provided by Wikipedia
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8by Mathias Vormehr, Barbara Schrörs, Sebastian Boegel, Martin Löwer, Özlem Türeci, Ugur SahinGet full text
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13by Sebastian Boegel, Martin Löwer, Thomas Bukur, Patrick Sorn, John C. Castle, Ugur SahinGet full text
Published 2018-03-01
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14by Barbara Schrörs, Sebastian Boegel, Christian Albrecht, Thomas Bukur, Valesca Bukur, Christoph Holtsträter, Christoph Ritzel, Katja Manninen, Arbel D. Tadmor, Mathias Vormehr, Mathias Vormehr, Ugur Sahin, Ugur Sahin, Martin LöwerGet full text
Published 2020-07-01
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