Uğur Şahin
Uğur Şahin (; born September 29, 1965) is a German oncologist and CEO of BioNTech who helped develop one of the major vaccines against COVID-19. His main fields of research are cancer research and immunology.

Şahin's family, originally from Turkey, moved to Germany when he was four years old. He grew up in Cologne and studied medicine at the University of Cologne, completing a PhD there in cancer immunotherapy. He initially remained in academia, conducting research at university hospitals in Saarland and Zurich and eventually founding a research group at the University of Mainz in 2000, where he became a professor of experimental oncology in 2006. In 2001, while maintaining his position at the university, he began to engage in entrepreneurial activities, co-founding two pharmaceutical companies in 2001 and 2008 with his partner Özlem Türeci, who is also a leading immunologist. The second of these companies, BioNTech, developed one of the major vaccines used to fight the COVID-19 pandemic together with Pfizer Inc in 2020. As a result of the company's increase in value, Şahin and Türeci became the first Germans with Turkish roots among Germany's top 100 wealthiest people list.
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