Meet the billionaire scientist couple who invented Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine

On the day they were married, Dr. Sahin and Dr. Tureci returned to the lab after the ceremony, according to a New York Times report. The pair was initially focused on research and teaching, including at the University of Zurich, where Dr. Sahin worked in the lab of Rolf Zinkernagel, who won (together with Australia's Peter C. Doherty) a Nobel Prize in 1996 in medicine for the discovery of how the immune system recognises virus-infected cells.