'''Uğurğur Şahin''' ({{IPA-tr|uˈuɾ ʃaː.hin|lang}}; born 19 September 1965<ref name=":2" />) is a German [[oncologist]] and [[immunologist]]. He is the CEO of [[BioNTech]], which developed [[Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine|one of the major vaccines]] against [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]].<ref name="netw">{{Cite news|title=Bloomberg Billionaires Index: Ugur Sahin|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/ugur-sahin/|work=[[Bloomberg L.P.]]|access-date=21 June 2021|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Hatice Akyün|date=26 April 2020|title="Wir sind Impfstoff": Über zwei Wissenschaftler, die nicht nur Hoffnung gegen das Virus machen.|trans-title="We are vaccine": Two Scientists give hope, and not just against the virus|url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/wir-sind-impfstoff-ueber-zwei-wissenschaftler-die-nicht-nur-hoffnung-gegen-das-virus-machen/25771136.html|newspaper=Der Tagesspiegel|language=de|access-date=26 October 2020}}</ref> His main fields of research are [[cancer research]] and [[immunology]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Johannes Göbel|date=26 March 2015|title=Erfolgreiches "Mainzer Modell"|trans-title=Successful Mainz Model|url=https://www.deutschland.de/de/topic/wissen/universitaet-forschung/erfolgreiches-mainzer-modell|language=de|publisher=Fazit Communication, German Federal Foreign Office|access-date=26 October 2020|website=Deutschland-Portal}} The awards are to be given to them by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Bellevue Palace, the presidential residence on 19 March.</ref>
Şahin's family, originally from Turkey, moved to Germany when he was four years old. He grew up in [[Cologne]] and studied medicine at the [[University of Cologne]], completing a [[Doctor of Philosophy|doctoral thesis]] there in [[cancer immunotherapy]]. He initially remained in academia, in patient care as an oncohematology physician and conducting research at university hospitals in [[Saarland University|Saarland]] and [[University of Zurich|Zürich]]. He founded a research group at the [[University of Mainz]] in 2000 and became a professor of experimental [[oncology]] in 2006.
