The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic

Winners of the Paul Ehrlich Prize

The dramatic story of the married scientists who founded BioNTech and developed the first vaccine against COVID-19.

Nobody thought it was possible. In mid-January 2020, Ugur Sahin told Özlem Türeci, his wife and decades-long research partner, that a vaccine against what would soon be known as COVID-19 could be developed and safely injected into the arms of millions before the end of the year. His confidence was built upon almost thirty years of research. Whil...