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Özlem Türeci

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Özlem Türeci (Turkish pronunciation: [ˈœzlem ˈtyredʒi]; born 6 March 1967) is a German physician, scientist and entrepreneur. In 2008, she co-founded the biotechnology company BioNTech, which in 2020 developed the first messenger RNA-based vaccine approved for use against COVID-19. Türeci has served as BioNTech's chief medical officer since 2018. Since 2021, she has been Professor of Personalized Immunotherapy at the Helmholtz Institute for Translational Oncology (HI-TRON) and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Özlem Türeci is the 577th most popular physician (down from 536th in 2019), the 4,528th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,262nd in 2019) and the 95th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Özlem Türeci ranks 577 out of 726. Before her are Napoleon Cybulski, Adam Zamenhof, Jeffrey Ullman, Arnold Pick, Karin Büttner-Janz, and Borzuya. After her are Eugene Lazowski, Patrick Steptoe, Albrecht von Graefe, Nikolay Burdenko, Andrea Andreen, and James Paget.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Özlem Türeci ranks 190. Before her are Guillermo Amor, Paweł Mąciwoda, Dino Rađa, George Eads, Masatada Ishii, and Pierre Omidyar. After her are Charles Austin, Spencer Tunick, Madhuri Dixit, Ralph Hasenhüttl, Arbaaz Khan, and Magdalena Forsberg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Özlem Türeci ranks 4,531 out of 7,253. Before her are Gustav Lindau (1866), Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854), Jeri Ryan (1968), Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter (1787), Felix Dahn (1834), and Reinhold Schünzel (1886). After her are Wilhelm Heye (1869), Nur Fettahoğlu (1980), Bernd Patzke (1943), Helene Stöcker (1869), Markus Lüpertz (1941), and Christoph Höhne (1941).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Özlem Türeci ranks 95. Before her are Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (1771), Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839), Ludwig Aschoff (1866), Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786), Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885), and Karin Büttner-Janz (1952). After her are Albrecht von Graefe (1828), Oskar Vogt (1870), Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff (1807), Edzard Ernst (1948), Paul Möhring (1710), and Harry Benjamin (1885).

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