Uğur Şahin
German oncologist of Turkish descent, immunologist, developer of COVID-19 vaccines
- Born
- 19 September 1965, İskenderun
- Age
- 61
Uğur Şahin (born 19 September 1965) is a German medical researcher, entrepreneur, and businessman. He is the co-founder and CEO of BioNTech, which developed the world’s first mRNA-based vaccine against COVID-19. He also serves as chairman of the scientific management board of the Helmholtz Institute for Translational Oncology (HI-TRON), a Mainz-based cutting-edge biopharmaceutical research laboratory he co-founded in 2018. He is co-inventor of more than 500 filed patents applications and patents. His main fields of research are cancer research and immunology.
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