The scientists who developed the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine
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The scientists who developed the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are a Turkish-German power couple
Scientists Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci have dedicated their lives to the field of oncology and infectious diseases, and spent years pioneering personalized immunotherapy treatments for cancer.
But amid the coronavirus pandemic, the couple's groundbreaking research in the field of modified genetic code has catapulted them into the public eye, as the brains behind the world's first effective coronavirus vaccine.
Sahin, 55, and Tureci, 53, set up BioNTech in the central German city of Mainz in 2008. On Monday the company's partner, US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, said their candidate vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing infection in volunteers.
It uses the never-before-approved technology called messenger RNA, or mRNA, to spark an immune response in people who are vaccinated.
On a call with reporters on Tuesday, Sahin explained the significance of the news -- and sent a message of hope for the world.
"I think the good message for mankind is that we now understand that COVID-19 infections can be indeed prevented by a vaccine," he said.
Speaking to CNN on Monday, Pfizer CEO's Albert Bourla called it "the greatest medical advance" in the last 100 years.
While the vaccine is a huge step for the scientific community, Sahin and Tureci are veterans in the world of medical achievements.
The pair, both trained physicians, established their previous company, Ganymed Pharmaceuticals, in 2001 to work on developing cancer-fighting antibodies, eventually selling it for $1.4 billion in 2016.
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[size=14]The Turkish-German founder of BioNTech, Ugur Sahin, at his laboratory in November.
Chief Executive Sahin and Chief Medical Officer Tureci are listed among Germany's 100 richest people, according to the weekly Welt am Sonntag newspaper. On Tuesday, the market value of their Nasdaq-listed company jumped to $25.72 billion -- a massive leap from $4.6 billion last year.
But the couple's charitable ethos and longstanding commitment to academia and science appear to have kept them grounded, even as their work on the Covid-19 vaccine propels them into the global spotlight.
In May, the couple told CNN they felt compelled to "provide something for society," given the work they had done in their field over the last two decades.
Sahin was born in Iskenderun, a city on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. He moved to Cologne, Germany when he was four, where his father worked at a local Ford factory, according to Reuters.
He met Tureci, the daughter of a Turkish physician, when the pair were both embarking on their academic careers.
BioNTech's chief medical officer, Ozlem Tureci at the lab in November.
Sahin and Tureci bonded over a shared passion for cancer research, according to Reuters, who reported that the couple even began their wedding day in the research lab.
In January, after reading a scientific paper about the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, Sahin was taken by the "small step" from anti-cancer mRNA drugs to mRNA-based viral vaccines, Reuters reported.
BioNTech assigned 500 of its staff to work on the project with several potential mRNA compounds, eventually closing a partnership with Pfizer in March.
Their Covid-19 vaccine approach uses genetic material, mRNA, to trick cells into producing bits of protein that look like pieces of the virus. The immune system learns to recognize and attack those bits and, in theory, would react fast to any actual infection.
A researcher works inside the German BioNTech laboratory in November.
Sahin has been described as a "modest and humble" person by colleagues, including Matthias Theobald, a fellow oncology professor at Mainz University, who has worked with him for two decades.
"Despite his achievements, he never changed from being incredibly humble and personable," Matthias Kromayer, a board member of the MIG AG venture capital firm that has financially backed BioNTech, told Reuters on Monday.
Those attributes ring clear when listening to Sahin speak about the global race to stop the virus.
On Tuesday he said he believed the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine "will not be the only vaccine" against Covid-19, noting that a number of Phase 3 vaccine trials are ongoing.
Sahin also said BioNTech's goal, in cooperation with Pfizer, is to ramp up production of their vaccine candidate and that they hope to manufacture up to 1.3 billion doses by the end of 2021, if it receives authorization.
He reiterated that BioNTech and Pfizer plan to ask the US Food and Drug Administration to authorize emergency use of the vaccine, with that request coming perhaps as early as next week.
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The scientists who developed the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are a Turkish-German power couple
Scientists Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci have dedicated their lives to the field of oncology and infectious diseases, and spent years pioneering personalized immunotherapy treatments for cancer.
But amid the coronavirus pandemic, the couple's groundbreaking research in the field of modified genetic code has catapulted them into the public eye, as the brains behind the world's first effective coronavirus vaccine.
Sahin, 55, and Tureci, 53, set up BioNTech in the central German city of Mainz in 2008. On Monday the company's partner, US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, said their candidate vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing infection in volunteers.
It uses the never-before-approved technology called messenger RNA, or mRNA, to spark an immune response in people who are vaccinated.
On a call with reporters on Tuesday, Sahin explained the significance of the news -- and sent a message of hope for the world.
"I think the good message for mankind is that we now understand that COVID-19 infections can be indeed prevented by a vaccine," he said.
Speaking to CNN on Monday, Pfizer CEO's Albert Bourla called it "the greatest medical advance" in the last 100 years.
While the vaccine is a huge step for the scientific community, Sahin and Tureci are veterans in the world of medical achievements.
The pair, both trained physicians, established their previous company, Ganymed Pharmaceuticals, in 2001 to work on developing cancer-fighting antibodies, eventually selling it for $1.4 billion in 2016.
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[size=14]The Turkish-German founder of BioNTech, Ugur Sahin, at his laboratory in November.
Chief Executive Sahin and Chief Medical Officer Tureci are listed among Germany's 100 richest people, according to the weekly Welt am Sonntag newspaper. On Tuesday, the market value of their Nasdaq-listed company jumped to $25.72 billion -- a massive leap from $4.6 billion last year.
But the couple's charitable ethos and longstanding commitment to academia and science appear to have kept them grounded, even as their work on the Covid-19 vaccine propels them into the global spotlight.
In May, the couple told CNN they felt compelled to "provide something for society," given the work they had done in their field over the last two decades.
Sahin was born in Iskenderun, a city on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. He moved to Cologne, Germany when he was four, where his father worked at a local Ford factory, according to Reuters.
He met Tureci, the daughter of a Turkish physician, when the pair were both embarking on their academic careers.
BioNTech's chief medical officer, Ozlem Tureci at the lab in November.
Sahin and Tureci bonded over a shared passion for cancer research, according to Reuters, who reported that the couple even began their wedding day in the research lab.
In January, after reading a scientific paper about the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, Sahin was taken by the "small step" from anti-cancer mRNA drugs to mRNA-based viral vaccines, Reuters reported.
BioNTech assigned 500 of its staff to work on the project with several potential mRNA compounds, eventually closing a partnership with Pfizer in March.
Their Covid-19 vaccine approach uses genetic material, mRNA, to trick cells into producing bits of protein that look like pieces of the virus. The immune system learns to recognize and attack those bits and, in theory, would react fast to any actual infection.
A researcher works inside the German BioNTech laboratory in November.
Sahin has been described as a "modest and humble" person by colleagues, including Matthias Theobald, a fellow oncology professor at Mainz University, who has worked with him for two decades.
"Despite his achievements, he never changed from being incredibly humble and personable," Matthias Kromayer, a board member of the MIG AG venture capital firm that has financially backed BioNTech, told Reuters on Monday.
Those attributes ring clear when listening to Sahin speak about the global race to stop the virus.
On Tuesday he said he believed the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine "will not be the only vaccine" against Covid-19, noting that a number of Phase 3 vaccine trials are ongoing.
Sahin also said BioNTech's goal, in cooperation with Pfizer, is to ramp up production of their vaccine candidate and that they hope to manufacture up to 1.3 billion doses by the end of 2021, if it receives authorization.
He reiterated that BioNTech and Pfizer plan to ask the US Food and Drug Administration to authorize emergency use of the vaccine, with that request coming perhaps as early as next week.
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8DonCo
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hai người này chắc sẽ đoạt giải Nobel .....
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Rễ Sim
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wow... hai vc đều giỏi heng.
Nói chứ bầu cử gì cũng xong rùi, giờ thuốc vaccine cũng đúng lúc ra để mọi người chích chuẩn ngừa rùi còn get back normal life.
Nói chứ bầu cử gì cũng xong rùi, giờ thuốc vaccine cũng đúng lúc ra để mọi người chích chuẩn ngừa rùi còn get back normal life.
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Newtexas
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công ty BioNTech nầy lúc trước ông Trump đòi Pfizer mua và chỉ bán ở Mỹ ONLY
tụi Đức nó chửi quá trời nên Pfizer mới partner với BioNTech
tụi Đức nó chửi quá trời nên Pfizer mới partner với BioNTech
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8DonCo
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Nếu thuốc ra thị truờng ông 8 vói Sim dám chích ko??
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Newtexas
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Newtexas wrote:wow... hai vc đều giỏi heng.
Nói chứ bầu cử gì cũng xong rùi, giờ thuốc vaccine cũng đúng lúc ra để mọi người chích chuẩn ngừa rùi còn get back normal life.
đúng rồi Tẹt .........
ở Mỹ mà còn nhức đầu .... thử nghĩ mấy xứ nhỏ người ta khổ cỡ nào!!
đây là đại dịch toàn thế giới ... ví dụ Mỹ hết ... nhưng người từ những nước khá lại đem covid sang Mỹ trở lại thì sao?
phải trị và kiểm soát nhập cảnh ...
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Rễ Sim
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Newtexas wrote:Nếu thuốc ra thị truờng ông 8 vói Sim dám chích ko??
từ từ, do not be rushed, nó mới chỉ bắt đầu thôi
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8DonCo
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Newtexas wrote:Nếu thuốc ra thị truờng ông 8 vói Sim dám chích ko??
theo những gì Sim biết tới nay ...... các loại vaccine có hiệu quả 70% được coi như đã tốt.
Pfizer làm vaccine chống Covid-19 có miễn nhiễm đến 90% thì tốt rồi ... chỉ là loại vaccine này cần phải chích 2 mũi mới hiệu nghiệm , khác với vaccine flu chỉ cần 1 mũi .
Sim nghĩ Sim sẽ chích 5 mũi cho chắc ăn ....
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Rễ Sim
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First batch cho US - 50 Million people
Canada - 10 million people
chưa tới bác đâu bác Sim
Canada - 10 million people
chưa tới bác đâu bác Sim
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8DonCo
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8 vói Sim, hong biết tin này đúng ko?? Chứ Tẹt nghe nói người Việt mình lúc còn nhỏ đã chích chuẫn ngừa uốn ván và nó cũng good cho covid này lun..
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Newtexas
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Newtexas wrote:8 vói Sim, hong biết tin này đúng ko?? Chứ Tẹt nghe nói người Việt mình lúc còn nhỏ đã chích chuẫn ngừa uốn ván và nó cũng good cho covid này lun..
ý bà nói ngừa lao phổi hả ? hôm nay bà xài chữ cao siêu quá tui không hiểu
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8DonCo
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.. Chời hỏi dzị mà hong hỉu??
Ý tui là.. hùi còn nhỏ bên vn là có vụ chích ngừa thuốc trồng trái.. a tui nhớ lộn hèn gì ông ko hiểu. Lol
Cho nen thuốc trồng trái mình chích qua cũng phòng ngừa bịnh covid trong người.
Ong biết trồng trái chích nằm ở cánh tay .. tui nghe nói mà ko nhớ nghe chổ mô nói..
Ý tui là.. hùi còn nhỏ bên vn là có vụ chích ngừa thuốc trồng trái.. a tui nhớ lộn hèn gì ông ko hiểu. Lol
Cho nen thuốc trồng trái mình chích qua cũng phòng ngừa bịnh covid trong người.
Ong biết trồng trái chích nằm ở cánh tay .. tui nghe nói mà ko nhớ nghe chổ mô nói..
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Newtexas
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Newtexas wrote:.. Chời hỏi dzị mà hong hỉu??
Ý tui là.. hùi còn nhỏ bên vn là có vụ chích ngừa thuốc trồng trái.. a tui nhớ lộn hèn gì ông ko hiểu. Lol
Cho nen thuốc trồng trái mình chích qua cũng phòng ngừa bịnh covid trong người.
Ong biết trồng trái chích nằm ở cánh tay .. tui nghe nói mà ko nhớ nghe chổ mô nói..
cái nầy thi hiểu chớ uốn van gì đó tui không hiểu
vụ đó thì cũng đúng vì mây nước bắt buôc chích ít bị nhiễm hay bị nhiễm thì ít chết hơn nhưng không gì chứng minh được họ chỉ lấy thống kê và hoài nghi thôi
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8DonCo
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Sự thật rằng : Vaccine sẽ không work . Làm vaccine để calm mà thôi . Giống như vaccine flu . Flu không hề có vaccine nào để ngừa nó . Mỗi năm một con virus mới . Our best bet là ăn, uống, ngủ nghỉ điều độ . Mùa flu uống VITC & D . Uống Vit D vì đa số lạnh không ra ngoài để sưởi nắng nên không đủ Vit D .
nhonguoita
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Scientist nay gioi qua—phai cam on ho.
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