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A successful founder off the beaten path

How to develop a new vaccine or therapeutic modality in a skeptical environment, with little biotech experience, limited resources and limited capital.

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Correspondence to Ingmar Hoerr.

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I.H. is CEO of CureVac AG (Germany) and President of CureVac Inc. (USA).

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Hoerr, I. A successful founder off the beaten path. Nat Biotechnol 35, 900–903 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3975

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