CNBC October 23, 2021
It was Jan. 24, 2020 when BioNTech CEO Uğur Şahin knew that Covid-19 was likely to become a global pandemic.
Though it was over a month and a half before the World Health Organization officially declared a pandemic, Sahin met with his wife, BioNTech’s co-founder and chief medical officer Özlem Türeci. Together, they agreed to redirect most of the company’s resources to developing a vaccine.
“He approached me and explained his thoughts and his his fears,” Türeci said. “And it was immediately clear to both of us that the technology we had, and which we had already clinically developed, that could help to ensure a rapid...
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