Sahin and Tureci celebrated with cups of Turkish tea at home. But it was also typical of the couple, who are intensely driven in their work yet understated in their personal lives. Sahin and Tureci, both children of Turkish immigrants to Germany, met while working on an oncology ward in the southwestern city of Homburg. No mRNA vaccine has received regulatory approval before, though scientists in the United States, Britain and China, as well as with one other German company, are pursuing similar vaccines for the coronavirus. ADSahin and Tureci are now a billionaire couple, numbering among the 100 richest Germans, according to the German paper Welt am Sonntag.

Source: Washington Post November 12, 2020 18:20 UTC