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2017

Emmanuelle Charpentier

Novozymes Prize Won by Researchers Behind Tools for Editing the Genes of Organisms

"The two Prize winners – Emmanuelle Charpentier and Virginijus Siksnys – have been at the forefront of developing CRISPR technology. They are both obvious recipients of the 2017 Novozymes Prize," says Søren Molin, chair of the Prize Committee.

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About Emmanuelle Charpentier

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Emmanuelle Charpentier

Professor

  • 1995: PhD degree from Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
  • 1996–2002: Postdoctoral Researcher at institutions in New York and Memphis, United States
  • 2002–2013: Assistant and Associate Professor, Vienna University, Austria and Umeå University, Sweden
  • 2013–2015: Professor, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
  • 2015–: Director, Department of Regulation in Infection Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany
  • Has won the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Germany’s most prestigious research prize
  • Selected by Time Magazine in 2015 as one of the world’s 100 most influential people.