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The husband-and-wife Research Team behind the leading vaccine to solve COVID-19 In its early years BioNTech, founded Dr Ugur Sahin and Dr Özlem Türeci, was mostly focused on cancer treatments. Source:Smh Two years ago, Dr Ugur Sahin took the stage at a conference in Berlin and made a bold prediction. Speaking to a roomful of infectious disease experts, he said his company might be able to use its so-called messenger RNA technology to rapidly develop a vaccine in the event of a global pandemic. At the time, Dr Sahin and his company, BioNTech, were little known outside the small world of European biotechnology startups. BioNTech, which Dr Sahin founded with his wife, Dr. Özlem Türeci, was mostly focused on cancer treatments. It had never brought a product to market. COVID-19 did not yet exist. It could be the beginning of the end of the COVID era,” Dr Sahin said. BioNTech ...