Behind Pfizer's vaccine, an understated husband-and-wife “dream team”

&gt; <i>even on the day of their wedding, both made time for lab work.</i><p>This would be the definition of pure passion and what it takes to accomplish something like this.<p>These people are a totally different breed compared to people I know. Kudos to them for their achievements.

Why is Pfizer always mentioned in the news when it is BioNTech and Pfizer is &quot;just&quot; a partner? Just as the Chinese drugmaker Fosun is.<p>Sure credit goes to both but this &quot;Dream Team&quot; is BioNTech.

Little funny sidenote: On the sign in front of the building (in the photo) is the address of the company. It translates to &quot;At the goldmine&quot; ;-)

I wonder how the fact that this is a German company relates to people in the US always being told that they have to pay multiples of international drug prices so the US companies can do the research the rest of the world is not doing.

The headquarter of their company is only 10 miles from my home, in a university town, full of young people. So blessed that maybe a part of the solution to this crisis comes from &quot;my&quot; region.

Beware BioNTech has a patent behind it, the process to manufacture it is also secret (trade secret).

This Covid vaccine was created by a German company founded by the children of Turkish immigrants.<p>In this time of open racism and public hostility to immigration, this needs to be pointed out and repeated.<p>It was children of Turkish immigrants to Germany.

So I&#x27;ve heard this is will be the first mRNA vaccine on the market, ever. How worried should I be, given the political pressure to get a COVID19 vaccine to market as quickly as possible?

Great story, it’s not quite there yet; finalisation of the testing, and mass production to be done.<p>But with the huge financial and credibility boost I hope the team can follow their passion to solve other medical issues.<p>Quite an insight to switch from cancer therapy to COVID-19 vaccine, and quite the opportunity to be able to deploy 500 researchers onto it at such an early stage.<p>I hope this bolsters their original search for cancer treatment.

How can they make sure that the mass produced version of the vaccine doesn&#x27;t have a &quot;mutation&quot; (extra&#x2F;missing nucleotide) in some shots while producing the mRNA?

I thought this was a good story for all the Western world on how immigration helps with unexpected breakthroughs.<p>More stories like these might help moderate some of the borderline right wing anti-immigration folks

Everyone is excited about &quot;90% efficacy&quot;, but nobody mentions the rate of side effects. Hmm. If this is injected into several billion people, twice into each person, wouldn&#x27;t you want to know at least an estimate of the ratio before you do that? Especially with mandatory vaccination looming on the horizon.

there are many vaccines in trials. why is this one getting so much attention? american PR machine hard at work? sounds like they already have the movie plot perfected but they haven&#x27;t published an article yet

Can’t get past the consent screen in chrome on an iPhone on either mobile or desktop page - agree button is off page. Surprising for a big site like Reuters

BionTech needs to hire a top tier marketing and PR team immediately, they are failing bad at early media mentions, press releases and coverage. Unfortunately it&#x27;s probably not within their DNA and they may not realize what is happening around them.<p>This is a monster, monster opportunity and just &#x27;existing&#x27; won&#x27;t leverage it to the extent they can - it will help them fund, hire more, expand more, do more of what they are doing.