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- Name: UGUR SAHIN
- English name: UGUR SAHIN
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Description: Uğur Şahin is ceo and cofounder of german biotech firm biontech, which partnered with pfizer to produce the first covid-19 vaccine approved in the us. Şahin led biontech to start on a vaccine for the coronavirus in early 2020; it partnered with pfizer in march 2020 and got approval in december. Şahin, who was born in turkey and grew up in germany, owns about 17% of biontech, which went public on the nasdaq in october 2019. in 2001 Şahin and his immunologist wife, özlem türeci, cofounded ganymed pharmaceuticals; astellas pharma acquired ganymed in 2016 for $460 million. Şahin and his wife türeci cofounded biontech in 2008, backed by german billionaire brothers thomas and andreas struengmann.
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