Germany honors Turkish-Germans behind Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine

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Germany’s president awards Turkish scientists Ozlem Tureci and Ugur Sahin with the country’s highest honour for inventing the world’s first effective vaccine against Covid-19

He underlined that Tureci and her husband Sahin’s pioneering work in the field of mRNA technologies, and their development of the coronavirus vaccine in less than a year, made a decisive contribution to containing the pandemic.

The Great Cross with Star of the Order of Merit, which was given to the Turkish-German scientist couple, is one of the country’s most prominent honours to pay tribute to individuals for their great services to the nation. The pharmaceutical company BioNTech, which the couple founded in 2008, managed to develop the world’s first effective coronavirus vaccine together with its US partner Pfizer.Armin Laschet, the leader of Germany’s governing party Christian Democratic Union , praised the scientists for their great achievements in a message he posted on Twitter.

 

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