The husband-and-wife founders of German vaccine company BioNTech announced on Tuesday they would step down to pursue new innovations at a brand new firm. BioNTech's CEO Ugur Sahin and chief medical officer Özlem Türeci pioneered mRNA vaccine technology in collaboration with US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Their efforts resulted in the first  COVID-19 vaccine to be approved in the West in 2021, for which they received numerous accolades including  Germany's most prestigious medical award and the

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