Meet the couple behind the BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
19.03.2021
| 02:24 mins.
The German company BioNTech, which teamed up with Pfizer to develop, test and produce a successful COVID-19 vaccine, was founded by two scientists, Özlem Türeci and Ugur Sahin. BioNTech had been focused mostly on cancer until Dr. Sahin was alarmed by news of a mysterious virus spreading in China.