# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ozlem-tureci
# Generated: 2026-09-01T18:49:05.024Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ozlem-tureci"
name: "Özlem Türeci"
slug: "ozlem-tureci"
description: "Özlem Türeci 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. Türeci and her spouse, Uğur Şahin, have won a number of awards."
tagline: "Turkish-German physician (born 1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ozlem_Tureci_v1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1967-03-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.25
  momentum:             15
  historical:           22.44915066666667
  currentAttention:     88.98305084745763
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 156
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12398713/"
    handle:    "nm12398713"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "იოზლემ თიურეჯი"
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    title: "Озлем Тюреджи"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ഒസ്‌ലം ടുറേസി"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3742909"
    title: "Özlem Türeci"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump