Ugur Sahin, who now leads BioNtech with his wife, where Kariko now works, told a story in an interview: His elementary teacher recommended that he be enrolled i

Ugur Sahin, who now leads BioNtech with his wife, where Kariko now works, told a story in an interview: His elementary teacher recommended that he be enrolled in the "Hauptschule", the lowest of the three-tier German high school system. A neighbor intervened, and had he not Sahin would not have been able to study medicine.