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Joe Miller is the Financial Times's Frankfurt correspondent who covered BioNTech's COVID-19 project in real time, giving him considerable knowledge and expertise on the subject. The book also has considerable contributions from Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci themselves, giving rare first-person accounts. It contains contributions from more than 50 scientists, politicians, public health officials, and BioNTech staff. Dr. Uğur Şahin and Dr. Özlem Türeci are the husband-and-wife team that cofounded BioNTech, developers of the world's first COVID-19 vaccine. The children of Turkish migrant workers in Germany, they trained as medical doctors and earned doctorates in molecular biology and immunotherapy. They have done extensive work in the field of translational oncology and written hundreds of scientific papers and patents. Şahin and Türeci received the 2022 Paul Ehrlich Prize for their contributions to research into mRNA technology.
'I have now read the book by Joe Miller about the development of the vaccine at Biontech. Ugur Sahin had already understood the dimension of the pandemic on 24 January. I wasn't that quick' -- Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany 'OEzlem Tureci and Ugur Sahin are rapidly becoming the most celebrated marriage in science since Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radioactivity' * The Times * 'They are the symbol of a remarkable scientific and business success story' * Financial Times (FT People of the Year) * 'The story of their quest to use a novel scientific method to defeat that disease, as well as cancer and others, would suffice to make them heroes of our time' * Bloomberg *
