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Coronavirus vaccine 'dream team’ couple behind jab 'spent wedding day in lab'

Dr Ugur Sahin and Dr Ozlem Tureci have dedicated their lives to medical research

The married couple behind the new coronavirus vaccine are so dedicated to medical research that they are claimed to have spent their wedding day in the lab.

Ugur Sahin, 55, and his wife Oezlem Tuereci, 53, have been heralded a "dream team" after their company BioNTech helped develop the groundbreaking jab with pharmaceutical outfit Pfizer.

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