Özlem Türeci & Ugur Sahin: Getting to the vaccine at the speed of light

Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin

The 54-year-old Sahin is CEO and co-founder of Biontech, and his wife, who is one year younger than him, works there as Chief Medical Officer.

Project Lightspeed. What a great name! You just have to imagine what we could achieve as a society if all projects were under this motto. With ‘Project Lightspeed’, Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin named the mission with which they and their company Biontech made history a good year ago: the development of a highly effective Covid-19 vaccine that would save millions of lives. First approved in the US and Europe, all within months instead of the usual years.

I am very honored to pay tribute to Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin here. For me, ‘Lightspeed’ sums up the great strengths that I associate with both. First and foremost, a speed that can justifiably be described as the speed of light.

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