- Helmut Jeggle: We learned that over the years that when Ugur tells you there is something you believe and in the end, we are believers.
- Ugur Sahin: First of all, we we are driven by purpose. We want to help. And if you understand that you can make a difference, then it's an obligation to help.
- Ugur Sahin: We see that in our journey now we came to another point, but the journey is not over yet. Sometimes we even feel that the journey just started.
- Helmut Jeggle: What Ugur was always saying every single person has a certain superpower. And the goal for us is how to bring those people with their superpowers to the right place, in the game.
- Ugur Sahin: What I like in Germany is, is, is what I missed in Turkey is the accountability. Yeah. It's really this relentless accountability. It's really down to earth and how the German Germans played soccer in the seventies and eighties.
- Ugur Sahin: I believe this is something that was possible because of our Turkish origins. What I really like in Turkish culture is paying attention to the individual. Yeah. So my father like to say, if someone offers you a cup of coffee, this is a value of 40 years.
- Ugur Sahin: If we see a cancer patient, we not only see a diseased person, but we see a person with the whole universe, with the family, with the relationships.
- Ikra Gizem Yildiz: I was dreaming about having a little finger capable of doing photosynthesis. That was my childhood dream. And I got really excited when I see for the first time blood cells under the microscope.
- Ugur Sahin: We really love what we do. We were driven by curiosity. we wanted to understand, if something worked, we were happy because it worked. And if something did not work and this was most often the case, yeah, we, we tried to understand why.
- Özlem Türeci: When we started our journey, the two of us always trusted, in the idea of building a tribe, a tribe of comrades, of mentors, of people who were close to us and who had the same vision.
- Mustafa Diken: For example, we don't call it a problem. We call those problematic things a challenge.
- Helmut Jeggle: It shows how fast projects can be managed if everyone is prepared to support them in the right way and shows what can happen if we use innovation to solve problems. And I think in the end, it was also proof of Ugur's vision to bring better medicine with new technology to people.
- Ugur Sahin: On one side we have a big vision. Trying to reach something which appears to be impossible. We know that we can only reach that if we take ourselves out of the equation. it's not about us. It's about people whom we want we want to help.
- Ugur Sahin: I remember a day when we had a big debate discussion with investors and our advisors someone said, But this is the way how all others do it. Just do it. And then I asked the question, what is the success rate of all others doing this way? Yeah. And then everyone, everyone was quiet because there was no success in the field. And, and, and I said, I said it doesn't make sense to do it in a way, in a way that people failed before.
- Felicitas Müller: Even small steps count here, A patient could go on vacation, which he was not able for a couple of years or he was able to celebrate a birthday. These small things motivate you so much to say, okay, if this helped one, it could help more.
- Ugur Sahin: Founding a company we did not we did not know how a company works. You have to deal with a lot of things which are not science and are based on bureaucracy. So this was not fun.
- Ugur Sahin: On the one side, you have to be naive as a scientist going into entrepreneurship, you have to respect the competence of other people. But on the other side, you have to question everything.