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Siegen

زيغن

City in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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al-Andalus & Europe
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Özlem Türeci

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Uğur Şahin· Özlem Türeci

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islam.museum contributors. “Siegen”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/siegen/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Uğur Şahin

Turkish-German immunologist and professor of oncology, born in İskenderun in 1965 and brought to Germany as a child, who co-founded Ganymed Pharmaceuticals (2001), BioNTech (2008) and TRON (2010) with his wife Özlem Türeci and others, led the development of the first mRNA vaccine against COVID-19, and received the Mustafa Prize in 2019.