# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ugur-sahin
# Generated: 2026-09-01T19:37:28.253Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ugur-sahin"
name: "Uğur Şahin"
slug: "ugur-sahin"
description: "Uğur Şahin is a German medical researcher, entrepreneur, and businessman. He is the co-founder and CEO of BioNTech, which developed the world’s first mRNA-based vaccine against COVID-19. He also serves as chairman of the scientific management board of the Helmholtz Institute for Translational Oncology (HI-TRON), a Mainz-based cutting-edge biopharmaceutical research laboratory he co-founded in 2018. He is co-inventor of more than 500 filed patents applications and patents. His main fields of research are cancer research and immunology."
tagline: "German oncologist, developer of COVID-19 vaccine"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ugur_Sahin_v1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1965-09-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           22.89848666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Uğur Şahin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill