The good feedback on BioNTech and Pfizer Inc COVID-19 vaccine is good news for the married couple behind the German biotech firm. The husband-wife 'dream team' has worked hard to help the immune system fight cancer over the years. Pfizer said its experimental vaccine had over a 90% chance of preventing COVID based on the data procured from a large study, as per a Reuters report.
Pfizer and BioNTech are the earliest that show successful data from a larger trial of the vaccine. They say that till now there are no serious safety concerns.?
From small beginnings as the son of a Turkish immigrant, BioNTech Chief Executive Ugur Sahin is among the 100 richest Germans. His wife and fellow board member Oezlem Tuereci is right there with him as per Welt am Sonntag.?
BioNTech's market value is now $21 billion as of November 6 from $4.6 billion in 2019. The duo co-founded it.?
"Despite his achievements, he never changed from being incredibly humble and personable," said Matthias Kromayer, a board member of MIG AG.?
It has funded BioNTech since it all began in 2008.?
He recalled how Sahin just enter into business meetings in jeans with his bicycle helmet and backpack.?
In an aim to study medicine and be a physician, Sahin worked at teaching hospitals in Cologne and Homburg. That was how he met Tuereci.?
Tuereci is the daughter of a Turkish physician who moved to Germany. She said that even the day she got married to Sahin, they were working.?
?They became entrepreneurs in 2001 by setting up Ganymed Pharmaceuticals with an aim to create cancer-fighting antibodies. Sahin nonetheless, never gave up teaching.