Emmanuelle Charpentier

Emmanuelle Charpentier
Charpentier in 2015
Born
Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier

(1968-12-11) 11 December 1968 (age 55)
Juvisy-sur-Orge, France
EducationPierre and Marie Curie University (BSc, MSc, PhD)
Known forCRISPR[1]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Berlin
University of Vienna
Umeå University
Max Planck Society
ThesisAntibiotic resistance in Listeria spp (1995)
Doctoral advisorPatrice Courvalin
Websitewww.emmanuelle-charpentier-pr.org

Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (French pronunciation: [emanɥɛl maʁi ʃaʁpɑ̃tje]; born 11 December 1968[2]) is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry.[1] As of 2015, she has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. In 2018, she founded an independent research institute, the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens.[3] In 2020, Charpentier and American biochemist Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing" (through CRISPR). This was the first science Nobel Prize ever won by two women only.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ a b Abbott, Alison (2016). "The quiet revolutionary: How the co-discovery of CRISPR explosively changed Emmanuelle Charpentier's life". Nature. 532 (7600): 432–434. Bibcode:2016Natur.532..432A. doi:10.1038/532432a. PMID 27121823.
  2. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
  3. ^ "CRISPR discoverer gets own research institute". 19 April 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  4. ^ "Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
  5. ^ Wu, Katherine J.; Peltier, Elian (7 October 2020). "Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to 2 Scientists for Work on Genome Editing – Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna developed the Crispr tool, which can alter the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with high precision". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Two female CRISPR scientists make history, winning Nobel in chemistry". STAT. 7 October 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2020.