Physician; Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer of BioNTech; Immunologist

Germany
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Özlem Türeci Biography

Prof. Özlem Türeci, M.D., Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of BioNTech, is a physician, immunologist, and cancer researcher with translational and clinical experience. Türeci has helped lead the discovery of cancer antigens, the development of mRNA-based individualized and off-the-shelf vaccine candidates and other types of immunotherapies which are currently in clinical development. The high-profile scientific publication Nature Biotechnology repeatedly listed her as one of the top 20 translational researchers worlwide.

Türeci leads the clinical development of BioNTech’s “Project Lightspeed,” the company’s successful effort to develop and distribute an mRNA-based vaccine against COVID-19, a historic achievement completed in less than one year. Türeci previously served as CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Ganymed Pharmaceuticals AG, which she co-founded with Ugur Sahin and Christoph Huber. She is also a professor for Personalized Immunotherapy at the University Medical Center Mainz and the Helmholtz Institute for Translational Oncology Mainz (HI-TRON), and currently serves as President of the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT) in Germany. She is a recipient of the German Sustainability Award, among other notable recognitions.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 02/04/2026.

Özlem Türeci Videos

Novo Nordisk Prize 2022

Novo Nordisk Prize 2022

The Novo Nordisk Foundation awarded the 2022 Novo Nordisk Prize to Katalin Karikó Özlem Türeci Drew Weissman and Uğur Şahin for their ...

Meet the scientist couple driving an mRNA vaccine revolution | TED

Meet the scientist couple driving an mRNA vaccine revolution | TED

As COVID-19 spread BioNTech cofounders Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci had one goal: to make a safe effective vaccine faster than ever before.

A conversation with BioNTech Co-Founders Ugur Sahin and Özlem ...

A conversation with BioNTech Co-Founders Ugur Sahin and Özlem ...

BioNTech Co-Founders Professor Ugur Sahin and Dr. Özlem Türeci discuss the state of the pandemic and vaccine development.

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