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Özlem Türeci
Born1967
Lastrup, Lower Saxony, Germany
CitizenshipGerman
Alma materSaarland University
Occupations
  • Chief Medical Officer
  • University lecturer
  • Scientist
Employers
Known for
OfficeCMO BioNTech SE
SpouseUğur Şahin

Özlem Türeci (born 1967)[1] is a German physician, immunologist and businessperson.[2] She is co-founder and chief medical officer of BioNTech. Türeci and her team developed a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.

Career

Türeci is co-founder and chief medical officer of BioNTech, president of the Mainz, Germany-based non-profit Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT)[3], co-initiator and chair of the Rhine-Main region-based non-profit Cluster for Individualized Immune Intervention (Ci3)[4], and lecturer at the University of Mainz.[5][6][7][8] She is a pioneer in cancer immunotherapy.[5]

In 2001, Türeci co-founded Ganymed Pharmaceuticals as its chief scientific officer, going on to become its chief executive officer in 2008.[7] Ganymed is now a subsidiary of Astellas Pharma, having been acquired in 2016 for €1.3 billion in Germany's then largest biotech deal to date.[2][9][10][11][8]

During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Türeci shifted her research focus to developing a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, in partnership with Pfizer.[5] On 11 November 2020, Pfizer reported that the vaccine developed by Türeci and her team was more than 90 percent effective in providing immunity to the virus.[12]

Awards

Personal life

Türeci was born in Lastrup, Lower Saxony, to Turkish parents [17] and has described herself as a "Prussian Turk."[18] She earned her M.D. at Saarland University's Faculty of Medicine.[7] Together with her husband she counts among the top 100 wealthiest Germans.[19]

Türeci has been married to fellow biomedical researcher Uğur Şahin since 2002[17][19] and the couple have a teenage daughter.[17] On the day of their wedding, they returned to their lab and went back to work after the ceremony.[12]

See also

  • Katalin Kariko – Hungarian-American biochemist (born 1955)

References

  1. ^ Forster, Sven (10 November 2020). "Auf diesem "Ausnahme"-Ehepaar ruhen jetzt alle Hoffnungen". 20 Minuten (in German). Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b Rodríguez Fernánde, Clara (9 October 2017). "The Woman Developing the Next Generation of Cancer Immunotherapy". Labiotech.eu. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  3. ^ "CIMT". CIMT.
  4. ^ "Cluster for Individualized Immune Intervention (Ci3) e.V."
  5. ^ a b c "German pharma company BioNTech nears coronavirus vaccine | DW | 9 November 2020". DW.COM. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  6. ^ Oltermann, Philip (9 November 2020). "Hopes rise for end of pandemic as Pfizer says vaccine is 90% effective". The Guardian.
  7. ^ a b c "Leadership". BioNTech. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  8. ^ a b "Chairpersons – Cluster for Individualized Immune Intervention (Ci3) e.V." Cluster for Individualized Immune Intervention (Ci3) e.V. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  9. ^ "Astellas to buy Ganymed". peHUB. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  10. ^ "Astellas to Acquire Ganymed Pharmaceuticals for Up to $1.4B". GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News. 28 October 2016.
  11. ^ "Pharmaceutical Companies; Astellas to Acquire Ganymed Pharmaceuticals". Healthcare Mergers, Acquisition & Ventures Week. 12 November 2016.
  12. ^ a b Gelles, David (10 November 2020). "The Husband-and-Wife Team Behind the Leading Vaccine to Solve Covid-19". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  13. ^ "Erfolgreiche Suche nach Tumormarkern", Ärzte Zeitung (in German), Springer Medizin, 13 October 2005, retrieved 26 October 2020
  14. ^ Koehler-Preis (in German), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie, retrieved 26 October 2020
  15. ^ "Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis: Startseite". Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis (in German). Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  16. ^ Miller, Joe; Cookson, Clive (16 December 2020). "FT People of the Year: BioNTech's Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci". Financial Times. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  17. ^ a b c Oltermann, Philip (9 November 2020). "BioNTech's Covid vaccine: a shot in the arm for Germany's Turkish community". The Guardian.
  18. ^ "Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci: German 'dream team' behind vaccine". the Guardian. 10 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  19. ^ a b "Spotlight: The Turkish-German 'dream team' couple behind Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine". Daily Sabah. 9 November 2020.
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