Emmanuelle Charpentier

Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (French pronunciation: [emanɥɛl maʁi ʃaʁpɑ̃tje]; born 11 December 1968) is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. 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. 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. Quotes Yes, and I think in, you know, I’m a microbiologist and I have always been interested in infectious diseases and my field of research is not really well recognised at the fundamental level, and so it’s good to see that there is still a lot to be … to learn. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/charpentier/interview/ That is I think the case indeed for a lot of technologies. Technologies go faster than... https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/charpentier/interview/ External links Category:Women scientists from France Category:Biologists from France Category:Women academics from France Category:Wolf Prize in Medicine laureates Category:Nobel laureates from France Category:Nobel laureates in Chemistry Category:Biochemists Category:1968 births Category:Women born in the 1960s Category:Living people Category:Women Nobel laureates