Emmanuelle Charpentier
French microbiologist, biochemist and Nobel laureate / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (French: [ɛmanɥɛl 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]
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Born | Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (1968-12-11) 11 December 1968 (age 55) Juvisy-sur-Orge, France |
Education | Pierre and Marie Curie University (BSc MSc, DPhil) Pasteur Institute (PhD training) |
Known for | CRISPR[1] |
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Institutions | University of Berlin Umeå University Max Planck Society |
Thesis | Antibiotic resistance in Listeria spp (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | Patrice Courvalin |
Website | www |