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

In 2018, it began a partnership with Pfizer. Last year, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested $55 million to fund its work treating HIV and TB. Also in 2019, Dr. Sahin was awarded the Mustafa Prize, a biennial Iranian prize for Muslims in science and technology. In June 2020, BioNTech received $250 million from Singapore's Temasek Holdings and other investors through a private placement of mandatory convertible bonds.