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She was born in the city of Lastrup in 1967 as a child of an immigrant family from Istanbul.
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1995 German Society of Hematology and Oncology - Vincenz Czerny Prize
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1997 Calogero Pagliarello Research Award.
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She continued her work in the company she founded with Uğur Şahin in 2001 and named "Ganymed", inspired by the Turkish word "ganimet".
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He moved to Mainz in 2001. At the Mainz University Hospital, he conducted studies aiming to fight the immune system against cancer with modified genetic codes.
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She married her colleague Uğur Şahin, who is also an immigrant from Turkey, in 2002.
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2005 German Society of Immunology - Georges Köhler Award
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Türeci founded BioNTech in 2008 with his wife Uğur Şahin and Austrian immunologist, oncologist Christoph Huber.
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Ganymed, a pioneer in sensitive antibody therapies for cancer, was sold to Japanese pharmaceutical company Astellas in 2016.
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She became the company's chief medical officer in 2018.
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The company, which has 1300 employees as of 2020, initially worked on immunotherapy cancer treatments.
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With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the company turned to finding a coronavirus vaccine.
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Collaborating with BioNTech on the development of the vaccine, the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced on November 9, 2020 that the produced COVID-19 vaccine (BNT162) has achieved success.