Saving the world from the epidemic may be the heroic role that we expect from many, and indeed there are many models that have devoted their lives to reaching a vaccine or treatment for Corona virus, including the two doctors Ujur Shaheen and Ozlem Toriichi, who are the couple behind the Covid-19 vaccine that could change the world, Shaheen came from humble roots to build two companies worth two billion dollars, but he still rides his mountain bike and modestly deals with people.
According to the British newspaper the Daily Mail, the 55-year-old ‘humble’ doctor became CEO of Biontec, the German biotechnology company, and his wife Oezlem Tuereci, 53, a member of the Board of Directors of BioNTech, are hailed as the dream team beyond the world’s hopes. In the Corona vaccine.
The global race to find a vaccine for Covid-19 took a leap forward when drug companies Pfizer and BioNTech claimed their vaccine dose was 90% effective.
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Boris Johnson promised that the United Kingdom will be at the “front of the package” for the new Corona virus vaccine, tonight after the massive breakthrough.
Doctor Shaheen grew up in Germany, where his parents worked at the Ford Factory. After being trained as a physician, Mr. Shaheen became a professor and researcher focusing on immunotherapy, working in teaching hospitals in Cologne and the southwestern city of Hamburg, where he met immunologist Toriichi during his early academic career. Medical research and oncology have become a shared passion, until their wedding day, they both made time to work in the laboratory.
Together, they honed the immune system as a potential ally in the fight against cancer and tried to address the unique genetic makeup of each tumor, starting life as an entrepreneur in 2001 when they created Ganymed Pharmaceuticals to develop antibodies to fight cancer, but Shaheen – at that time a professor at Mainz University.
Pfizer and BioNTech have produced one of the world’s leading candidates for a coronavirus vaccine, and have become the first to report early results from their final study.
The doctor and his wife are now among the 100 richest Germans, according to the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, but Matthias Kromaire, a board member of the venture capital company MIG AG, whose money has backed BioNTech, said: “Despite his achievements, he has never changed from being humble. And incredibly stylish. “
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