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The billionaire husband and wife ‘dream team’ who created the COVID-19 vaccine – Sydney Morning Herald
A love story between two scientists was the catalyst for one of the biggest breakthroughs in the coronavirus pandemic.
Dubbed the “husband and wife dream team” by European media, Sahin, 55, is BioNTech’s chief executive officer and Türeci, 53, its chief medical officer. They founded BioNTech in 2008 with Sahin’s former professor Christopher Huber and sold their other pharmaceutical firm, Ganymed, to Japanese multinational Astellas for 1.3 billion ($2.1 billion) in 2016.
Brothers Andreas and Thomas Strüngmann, the wealthy co-founders of the German pharmaceutical giant Hexal, were some of the first investors in Ganymed…
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