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

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

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. While working to revolut...