CIMT President Özlem Türeci honored

We congratulate CIMT President Özlem Türeci who together with Katalin Karikó and Uğur Şahin will receive the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 2022. The award recognizes their contribution to the mRNA technology, on which the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by BioNTech is based. Şahin and Türeci are the founders BioNTech; Karikó is its senior vice president. The Ehrlich Prize is endowed with 120,000 euros and is considered of the most prestigious medical prizes: 25 of the 128 researchers awarded so far have also received the Nobel Prize. The award will be presented on March 14, 2022 at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt.