direct to your inbox The speed at which BioNTech produced a viable coronavirus vaccine has been credited to the fact its workforce is more than 50 per cent female.
The company's co-founder and chief medical officer, Dr Ozlem Tureci, said gender equality in the team made the 'seemingly impossible possible' creating a jab in just 11 months.The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was the first to be approved in the UK.But speaking on International Women’s Day, Dr Tureci also said women underrepresented in decision-making roles within medicine was 'destroying value' for stakeholders.She told a World Health Organisation (WHO) briefing the lack of gender equality in patient care, medical research and the biopharm industry is “obvious every day”.She added:.