When the world stopped all hopes rested on finding a vaccine. One team answered the call and
were ready to act. But how do you develop a life-saving drug when every second counts and one
mistake could be catastrophic? Married couple and decades-long research partners Ugur Sahin and
Özlem Türeci did just that within weeks of the pandemic breaking out. From convincing Big
Pharma to support their ambitious project to navigating political interference from the Trump
administration and the European Union the road to producing the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine was by
no means smooth. But these cutting-edge innovators overcame every obstacle to provide more than
two billion doses of the life-saving drug to countries all around the world in record time. The
Vaccine draws back the curtain on one of the most important medical breakthroughs of our age
containing contributions from the fascinating couple themselves as well as more than 50
scientists politicians public health officials and BioNTech staff. Shedding a light on the
science behind the breakthrough The Vaccine tells the story of the trailblazers to whom we all
owe a debt of gratitude. More suspenseful than a novel this is a real-life story of an
extraordinary race against time to save the world.
