Tamasi hat geschrieben:BioNTech, BioNTech...
Wer hat's
wirklich erfunden?!
Ich war etwas verwundert, als ich die ersten nordamerikanischen Schlagzeilen und Berichte las.
Meistens wurde nur Pfitzer genannt.
Am Anfang musste ich eine Weile suchen, bis "BionTech" mal erwähnt wurde.
Inzwischen hat sich das geändert. Anerkennung für alle, denen Anerkennung gebührt.
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How close are we to a COVID-19 vaccine? What Pfizer's early results mean for Canadians
CBC News · Posted: Nov 09, 2020 4:09 PM ET | Last Updated: November 10
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-19-vaccine-pfizer-faq-1.5795486~
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-09/pfizer-vaccine-s-funding-came-from-berlin-not-washingtonPrognosis
Pfizer Vaccine’s Funding Came From Berlin, Not Washington
By Riley Griffin
and Drew Armstrong
9. November 2020, 19:45 MEZ Updated on 9. November 2020, 20:26 MEZ
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The New York Times by David Gelles
Nov. 10, 2020Updated 4:09 p.m. ET
The Husband-and-Wife-Team behind the Leading Vaccine to Solve Covid-19The German Company BioNTech, founded by two scientists, has teamed up with Pfitzer
on a vaccine that was found to be more than 90 Percent effective.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/business/biontech-covid-vaccine.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=HomepageOn Monday, BioNTech and Pfizer announced that a vaccine for the coronavirus developed by Dr. Sahin and his team was more than 90 percent effective in preventing the disease among trial volunteers who had no evidence of having previously been infected. The stunning results vaulted BioNTech and Pfizer to the front of the race to find a cure for a disease that has killed more than 1.2 million people worldwide.
“It could be the beginning of the end of the Covid era,” Dr. Sahin said in an interview on Tuesday.
BioNTech began work on the vaccine in January, after Dr. Sahin read an article in the medical journal The Lancet that left him convinced that the coronavirus, at the time spreading quickly in parts of China, would explode into a full-blown pandemic. Scientists at the company, based in Mainz, Germany, canceled vacations and set to work on what they called Project Lightspeed.
“There are not too many companies on the planet which have the capacity and the competence to do it so fast as we can do it,” Dr. Sahin said in an interview last month. “So it felt not like an opportunity, but a duty to do it, because I realized we could be among the first coming up with a vaccine.”
After BioNTech had identified several promising vaccine candidates, Dr. Sahin concluded that the company would need help to rapidly test them, win approval from regulators and bring the best candidate to market. BioNTech and Pfizer had been working together on a flu vaccine since 2018, and in March, they agreed to collaborate on a coronavirus vaccine.
Since then, Dr. Sahin, who is Turkish, has developed a friendship with Albert Bourla, the Greek chief executive of Pfizer. The pair said in recent interviews that they had bonded over their shared backgrounds as scientists and immigrants.
“We realized that he is from Greece, and that I’m from Turkey,” Dr. Sahin said, without mentioning their native countries’ long-running antagonism. “It was very personal from the very beginning.”
Last year, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested $55 million to fund its work treating H.I.V. and tuberculosis. Also in 2019, Dr. Sahin was awarded the Mustafa Prize, a biennial Iranian prize for Muslims in science and technology.
In Germany, where immigration continues to be a fractious issue, the success of two scientists of Turkish descent was cause for celebration.
“With this couple, Germany has a shining example of successful integration,” wrote the conservative-business site Focus.
A member of Parliament, Johannes Vogel, wrote on Twitter that if it was up to the far-right Alternative for Germany party, “there would be no #BioNTech of Germany with Özlem Türeci & Ugur Sahin at the top.”
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