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Line 22: }} '''Uğur Şahin''' ({{IPA-\|tr\|uˈuɾ ʃaː.hin\|lang}}; born 19 September 1965<ref name=":2" />) is a German [[oncologist]] and [[immunologist]]. He is the co-founder and CEO of [[BioNTech]], which developed [[Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine\|one of the major vaccines]] against [[Coronavirus disease 2019\|COVID-19]].<ref name=netw>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/ugur-sahin/\|title=Bloomberg Billionaires Index: Ugur Sahin \|work=[[Bloomberg L.P.]] \|access-date=21 June 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|author=Hatice Akyün\|date=26 April 2020\|title="Wir sind Impfstoff": Über zwei Wissenschaftler, die nicht nur Hoffnung gegen das Virus machen.\|language=de\|trans-title="We are vaccine": Two Scientists give hope, and not just against the virus\|newspaper=Der Tagesspiegel\|url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/wir-sind-impfstoff-ueber-zwei-wissenschaftler-die-nicht-nur-hoffnung-gegen-das-virus-machen/25771136.html\|access-date=26 October 2020}}</ref> His main fields of research are [[cancer research]] and [[immunology]].<ref>{{cite news\|author=Johannes Göbel\|date=26 March 2015\|title=Erfolgreiches "Mainzer Modell"\|language=de\|trans-title=Successful Mainz Model\|website=Deutschland-Portal\|publisher=Fazit Communication, German Federal Foreign Office\|url=https://www.deutschland.de/de/topic/wissen/universitaet-forschung/erfolgreiches-mainzer-modell\|access-date=26 October 2020}} The awards are to be given to them by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Bellevue Palace, the presidential residence on 19 March.</ref> 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 [[Doctor of Philosophy\|doctoral thesis]] there in [[cancer immunotherapy]]. He initially remained in academia, in patient care as an oncohematology physician and conducting research at university hospitals in [[Saarland University\|Saarland]] and [[University of Zurich\|Zürich]]. He founded a research group at the [[University of Mainz]] in 2000 and became a professor of experimental [[oncology]] in 2006. Line 29: == Personal life and education == Şahin was born on 19 September 1965<ref name=":2">{{Cite web\|title=Öffentliche Bekanntmachung RegisSTAR\|url=https://www.handelsregisterbekanntmachungen.de/skripte/hrb.php?rb_id=261109&land_abk=rp\|access-date=2021-11-04\|website=handelsregisterbekanntmachungen.de\|language=de}}</ref> in [[İskenderun]] into a Turkish [[~~Alevi~~Alawites\|Alawite]] family.<ref>{{cite web \| url = https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000122601040/migration-und-qualifikation \| title = Migration und Qualifikation - derStandard.at \| accessdate = 22 December 2020 \| date = 18 December 2020 \| language = de-AT \| work = [[Der Standard]] \| publisher = \| first = Hans \| last = Rauscher}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Tanlı \|first1=Mehmet \|title=Gurur ve Yanılgı \|url=https://abcgazetesi.com/yazarlar/mehmet-tanli/gurur-ve-yanilgi-323052 \|website=ABC \|date=17 November 2020 \|access-date=19 December 2021}}</ref> He moved with his mother to Germany at the age of four to join his father, who worked in [[Ford Germany\|Cologne's Ford factories]].<ref>{{cite news\|author=Franz Josef Wagner\|date=7 October 2020\|title=Betrifft: Wir sind Impfstoff.\|language=de\|page=18\|newspaper=B.Z.\|publisher=B.Z. Ullstein\|issue=234}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|date=21 October 2020\|title=Corona-Impfstoff könnte Biontech-Gründer Ugur Sahin weltberühmt machen.\|language=de\|newspaper=RTL\|url=https://www.rtl.de/cms/corona-impfstoff-koennte-biontech-gruender-ugur-sahin-weltberuehmt-machen-4630380.html\|access-date=26 October 2020}}</ref> He was interested in [[Association football\|football]] and popular [[science book]]s, which he borrowed from the library. Initially, his primary school teacher recommended that he attend a [[hauptschule]], which would not have readily enabled him to attend university. Upon intervention of his German neighbour, he went to a [[Gymnasium (Germany)\|gymnasium]] instead.<ref>{{cite web\|last=Külahçı\|first=Ahmet\|date=18 November 2020\|title='Der Retter kommt' (Kurtarıcı geliyor)\|url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/avrupa/der-retter-kommt-kurtarici-geliyor-41665341\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129195053/https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/avrupa/der-retter-kommt-kurtarici-geliyor-41665341\|archive-date=29 November 2020\|access-date=29 January 2021\|publisher=Hürriyet}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|last1=Rossmann\|first1=Ernst Dieter\|last2=Samsami\|first2=Behrang\|date=2 December 2020\|title=Gemeinsam denken\|trans-title=Thinking together\|url=https://www.freitag.de/autoren/behrang-samsami/gemeinsam-denken\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202073731/https://www.freitag.de/autoren/behrang-samsami/gemeinsam-denken\|archive-date=2 December 2020\|access-date=30 January 2021\|newspaper=[[Der Freitag]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|author=Anne Seibring\|date=11 December 2020\|title=Editorial\|url=https://www.bpb.de/apuz/schule-2020/322678/editorial\|access-date=31 January 2021\|publisher=[[Federal Agency for Civic Education\|Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung]]}}</ref> Taking advanced courses in mathematics and chemistry, he graduated from the Erich-Kästner-Gymnasium in [[Niehl, Cologne\|Cologne-Niehl]] in 1984, and was the first child at the school with Turkish [[Foreign worker\|guest worker]] parents.<ref>{{Citation\|author=Bastian Ebel\|title=Stolz an Kölner Schule: Irrer Lebensweg: Ex-Abiturient wird in Corona-Zeit zum Weltstar\|date=11 November 2020\|url=https://www.express.de/koeln/stolz-an-koelner-schule-irrer-lebensweg--ex-abiturient-wird-in-corona-zeit-zum-weltstar-37600434\|trans-title=Pride at a Cologne School: Crazy Life Path: Former Student Becomes World Star in Corona Times\|language=de\|access-date=20 November 2020}}</ref> Şahin met his future wife, [[Özlem Türeci]], during his work at the [[Saarland University]] Hospital (Universität des Saarlandes) in [[Homburg, Saarland\|Homburg]], where Türeci completed her last year of medical studies. The couple married in 2002 and had a daughter four years later.<ref>{{Citation\|author=Tobias Stolzenberg\|title=Zwei gegen den Krebs\|date=2018\|url=https://www.heise.de/select/tr/2018/5/1525055172523270\|newspaper=Technology Review\|issue=5\|location=Hannover\|publisher=Heise Verlag\|language=de\|access-date=26 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|author=Anton Rainer\|title=Biontech-Impfstoff: Wie Google eine Impf-Forscherin zur "Ehefrau" macht\|url=https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/biontech-impfstoff-wie-google-eine-impf-forscherin-zur-ehefrau-macht-a-e8ace050-8329-4706-9543-8a4e3ff6cd34\|access-date=11 July 2021\|newspaper=Der Spiegel\|date=10 November 2020\|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|date=7 December 2020\|title=Özlem Türeci\|url=https://www.politico.eu/list/politico-28-class-of-2021-ranking/ozlem-tureci/\|access-date=11 July 2021\|website=POLITICO}}</ref> Line 36: === Education === Şahin studied medicine at the [[University of Cologne]] from 1984 to 1992.<ref>{{cite news\|last=Balzter\|first=Sebastian\|date=21 August 2016\|title=Das Traumpaar der Biotech-Branche\|language=de\|trans-title=The Dream Couple of the Biotech Industry\|page=27\|newspaper=Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung\|url=https://www.hmw-emissionshaus.ag/files/Pressearchiv/FAS_20160821__Traumpaar_der_Biotech_Branche.pdf\|access-date=26 October 2020\|via=hmw-emissionshaus.ag}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=Entwicklung innovativer Impfstoffe gegen Krebserkrankungen\|trans-title=Development of innovative vaccines against cancer\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHE6LsUs_bU&t=10m47s\|access-date=26 October 2020\|website=YouTube\|date=5 March 2012 \|at=10:47\|language=de}}</ref> He received his [[doctorate]] in 1992 with a thesis on [[immunotherapy]] against [[Neoplasm\|tumor cells]] (bispecific monoclonal antibodies for the activation of cytostatic precursors on tumor cells), which was graded ''[[Latin honors#Germany\|summa cum laude]]''. His [[Supervisor\|thesis supervisor]] was {{ill\|Michael Pfreundschuh\|de}}. From 1992 to 1994, he studied mathematics at the [[University of Hagen\|Fernuniversität Hagen]].<ref name=":1">{{Citation\|title=Prof. Dr. Ugur Sahin, Mitglied des FZI\|url=https://www.fzi.uni-mainz.de/files/2019/10/CV_Prof-Sahin_aktualisiert.pdf\|publisher=Forschungszentrum für Immuntherapie (FZI) der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz\|access-date=26 October 2020}}</ref> == Career == Line 121: * 1995: Merit Award of the [[American Society of Clinical Oncology]] (ASCO)<ref name=":0">{{Citation\|title=Prof. Dr. med. Ugur Sahin\|url=https://www.sfb1399.de/research/principal-investigators/prof-dr-med-ugur-sahin\|website=SFB 1399: Mechanisms of Drug Sensitivity and Resistance in Small Cell Lung Cancer\|publisher=Department of Translational Genomics, University of Cologne\|access-date=26 October 2020}}</ref> * 1997: Calogero Paglierello Research Award<ref>{{Citation\|title=Ugur Sahin, Managing Director (Science and Research) of Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz – Tron\|url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/cancer/events/spring-2015/Dr-Professor-Ugur-Sahin.aspx\|publisher=University of Birmingham\|access-date=26 October 2020\|archive-date=3 May 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170503044244/http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/cancer/events/spring-2015/Dr-Professor-Ugur-Sahin.aspx\|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2005: {{ill\|Georges Köhler Prize\|de\|Georges-Köhler-Preis}} of the {{ill\|German Society of Immunology\|de\|Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie}}<ref>{{Citation\|title=Erfolgreiche Suche nach Tumormarkern\|date=13 October 2005\|url=https://www.aerztezeitung.de/Medizin/Erfolgreiche-Suche-nach-Tumormarkern-376780.html\|newspaper=Ärzte Zeitung\|publisher=Springer Medizin\|language=de\|access-date=26 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Citation\|title=Koehler-Preis\|newspaper=Dgfi \|date=20 June 2018\|url=https://dgfi.org/preise/koehler-preis/\|publisher=Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie\|language=de\|access-date=26 October 2020}}</ref> * 2006 and 2010: GO-Bio Prize of the [[Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany)\|Federal Ministry of Education and Research]]<ref>{{Citation\|title=GO-Bio Erfolge\|url=https://go-bio.de/de/erfolge-1713.html\|publisher=Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)\|language=de\|access-date=26 October 2020}}</ref> * 2012: BMBF Spitzencluster Award for TRON projects as part of CI3-Regional Cluster for Individualized Immune Intervention<ref>{{Citation\|title=Prof. Ugur Sahin, MD PhD\|url=http://iscoms.com/prof-mario-r-capecchi-phd-2/\|website=ISCOMS\|publisher=International Student Congress of (Bio)medical Sciences\|access-date=26 October 2020\|archive-date=9 November 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109132131/http://iscoms.com/prof-mario-r-capecchi-phd-2/\|url-status=dead}}</ref> Line 147: * 2022: Ring of Honor of the University Medicine Mainz (together with Özlem Türeci)<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Özlem Türeci und Uğur Şahin mit dem Ehrenring der Universitätsmedizin Mainz gewürdigt \|trans-title=Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin honored with the Ring of Honor of Mainz University Medicine \|url=https://idw-online.de/en/news787899 \|access-date=2022-05-15 \|website=idw-online.de \|language=de}}</ref> * 2022: [[Honorary citizenship]] of Mainz (together with Özlem Türeci) <ref>{{Cite web \|title=Ehrenbürger:innenwürde (Aufzeichnung) \|url=https://www.mainz.de/kultur-und-wissenschaft/stadtgeschichte/ehrenbuergerwuerde-huber-tuereci-sahin.php \|access-date=2022-05-15 \|website=mainz.de \|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last= \|first= \|last2= \|first2= \|date=2022-03-10 \|title=Biontech-Gründer sind Mainzer Ehrenbürger \|trans-title=Biontech founders are honorary citizens of Mainz \|url=https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/rheinland-pfalz/mainz/ehrenbuergerwuerde-mainz-fuer-biontech-gruender-sahin-tuereci-huber-100.html \|access-date=2022-05-15 \|website=SWR Aktuell \|language=de}}</ref> * 2022: [[The Novo Nordisk Prize\|Novo Nordisk Prize]]<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Four scientists receive the Novo Nordisk Prize for their combined contributions to COVID-19 mRNA vaccine \|url=https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/four-scientists-receive-the-novo-nordisk-prize-for-their-combined-contributions-to-covid-19-mrna-vaccine/ \|access-date=2022-05-15 \|website=Novo Nordisk Fonden \|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite press release \|last=Novo \|title=Recipients of the Novo Nordisk Prize played major role in the research and development of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine \|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/recipients-of-the-novo-nordisk-prize-played-major-role-in-the-research-and-development-of-the-covid-19-mrna-vaccine-301383916.html \|access-date=2024-04-05 \|website=www.prnewswire.com \|language=en}}</ref> * 2022: [[Warren Alpert Foundation Prize]]<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Prize Recipients {{!}} Warren Alpert Foundation Prize \|url=https://warrenalpert.org/prize-recipients \|access-date=2022-05-15 \|website=warrenalpert.org}}</ref> * 2023: [[Pour le Mérite]]<ref name="ORDEN POUR LE MÉRITE 1965 z520">{{cite web \| title=Şahin \| website=ORDEN POUR LE MÉRITE \| url=https://www.orden-pourlemerite.de/mitglieder/ugur-sahin \| language=de \| access-date=18 December 2023}}</ref> == References ==