{"id":8512,"date":"2026-03-30T17:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8512"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:12:19","slug":"biontech-founders-step-down-to-start-new-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/30\/biontech-founders-step-down-to-start-new-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"BioNTech founders step down to start new venture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BioNTech founders Ugur Sahin and \u00d6zlem T\u00fcreci have announced they will step down by the end of 2026 to launch a new firm dedicated to further mRNA innovations. The pioneering couple developed the first Western-approved COVID-19 vaccine. While BioNTech&#8217;s stock price dropped 17% following the news, the company will maintain a minority stake and collaborate with the founders&#8217; third venture on new therapies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> March 10, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/biontech-founders-step-down-vaccine-ugur-sahin-ozlem-tureci\/a-76293789\">dw.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BioNTech founders Ugur Sahin and \u00d6zlem T\u00fcreci have announced they will step down by the end of 2026 to launch a new firm dedicated to further mRNA innovations. The pioneering couple developed the first Western-approved COVID-19 vaccine. While BioNTech&#8217;s stock price dropped 17% following the news, the company will maintain a minority stake and collaborate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-pandemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8841,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions\/8841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}