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Uğur Şahin

@ugursahin

German oncologist, developer of COVID-19 vaccine

Building BioNTech as Founder · Germany

Key facts

Born
1965
Educated at
University of Cologne · Erich Kastner Gymnasium · Saarland University

About

Uğur Şahin is an oncologist and university teacher, born in 1965 in İskenderun. They studied at Erich Kastner Gymnasium. They served as university teacher.

In context

BioNTech was founded in 2008 and has no closure on record. Among the 13 other pharmaceutical industry companies founded in the 2000s we hold, those that closed lasted a median of 9 years.

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