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6. Read the article in an international science journal, Science 2020 and choose the best title for it.
a. The Biggest Threat to the Healthcare Teamwork
b. How to Cope with COVID-19
c. The Dream Team behind the Vaccine

Two years ago, COVID-19 did not yet exist, and a career, he met Dr. Türeci, his future wife, whose father
doctor called Uğur Şahin, who is Turkish, gave a talk is a Turkish immigrant physician. On the day they got
at a seminar in Berlin. He made a brave prediction married in 2002, Dr. Şahin and Dr. Türeci returned to the
saying that his company might be able to develop a lab right after the ceremony. The pair’s main concern
vaccine in the event of a global pandemic. On Monday, was to research and to teach. In 2001, Dr. Şahin and
it was announced that a vaccine for the coronavirus Dr. Türeci founded a company which developed drugs
was developed by Dr. Uğur Şahin and his wife, Dr. to treat cancer. They founded their second company,
Özlem Türeci. “This vaccine is more than 90 percent which has currently 1800 employees, in 2008. “They
effective in preventing the disease that has killed more care only about science. Discussing business is not
than 1.2 million people worldwide,” Dr. Şahin said in an their cup of tea,” said Sean Marett, chief commercial
interview on Tuesday. Dr. Şahin, who is 55, was born officer of the company. Even before the pandemic, the
in İskenderun, Turkey. When he was a little boy, his company raised hundreds of millions of dollars with
family moved to Cologne, Germany, and his parents offices in Berlin, other German cities and Cambridge.
started to work at a car factory. His only ambition The two successful scientists live with their teenage
was to be a doctor, and he became a physician at daughter in a humble apartment near their office. They
the University of Cologne. In 1993, he received his do not even have a car and they cycle to work.
doctorate degree from the same university for his
study on immunotherapy in tumor cells. Early in his

7. Look at the sentence in bold in the article and choose the similar meaning of it.
a. While discussing business, they don’t even drink a cup of tea.
b. They don’t like talking about business at all.
c. Their main concern is to discuss business.

8. Read the article again and write true (T), false (F) or not stated (NS).
1. Dr. Şahin’s prediction didn’t come true. __
2. COVID-19 has killed more than one million people so far. __
3. Dr. Türeci graduated from the University of Cologne. __
4. The couple isn’t addicted to work. __
5. They choose to live a simple life although they own a big company. __
9. First, search for some real-life success stories. Next, choose the hero or heroine that inspires you
and write about him/her as in exercise 6. Then, write an effective title for your work.

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