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    THE BRAINS BEHIND THE BREAKTHROUGH

    Dec 11, 2020 4 minutes
    COMPILED BY NICI DE WET

    A COUPLE meet as university students, bond over a shared passion for science, get married and devote their lives to developing drugs to fight diseases that blight humankind.

    Then a deadly pandemic comes along and wipes out close to 1,5 million people in a few harrowing months. The couple work around the clock to come up with a vaccine to help liberate the globe from the grip of the killer virus – and they do just that.

    It may sound more like something from a Hollywood movie but this is the real-life story of scientists Dr Ugur Sahin (55) and Dr Özlem Türeci (53), the dream team

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