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Emmanuelle Charpentier
Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. She has served as a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin since 2015. Three years later, 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 Univ…
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science · French microbiologist, biochemist and Nobel laureate (born 1968) · microbiologist · biochemist · geneticist · immunologist · university teacher · scientist · director · also Emmanuelle Charpentier, Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier, Emmanuelle M. Charpentier, E. M. Charpentier, E. Charpentier, Emmanuelle Marie Petitfrère
Born 11 December 1968 · Q17280087
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
LaPresse: Un café avec… Emmanuelle Charpentier La science, le Nobel, la vie
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2021· 1 entry
Walter Isaacson detailed the story of Jennifer Doudna and her collaboration with Charpentier leading to the discovery of CRISPR/CAS-9, in the biography The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of t
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2020· 6 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the development of a method for genome editing.
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Le Parisien: Nobel de chimie : Emmanuelle Charpentier, un parcours exemplaire, une découverte «révolutionnaire»
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EurekAlert!: Leopoldina president Gerald Haug congratulates Emmanuelle Charpentier on the Nobel Prize
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Medicine (2020).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2020).
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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)
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2019· 2 entries
Awarded Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2019).
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Charpentier was a featured character in the play STEM FEMMES by Philadelphia theater company Applied Mechanics
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2018· 7 entries
Awarded Kavli Prize in Nanoscience (2018).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge (2018).
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Awarded Aachener Ingenieurpreis (2018).
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Awarded Harvey Prize (2018).
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Won Bijvoet Medal (2018).
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain (2018).
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Became the founding and acting director of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens
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2017· 4 entries
Awarded Fellow of the AACR Academy (2017).
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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (2017).
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Awarded Japan Prize (2017).
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Awarded Honorary doctorate of Umeå University (2017).
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2016· 13 entries
Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (2016).
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Awarded L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science (2016).
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Won Otto Warburg Medal (2016).
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Awarded Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2016).
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Awarded Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2016).
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Awarded Tang Prize (2016).
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Awarded BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2016).
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Awarded Meyenburg Prize (2016).
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Awarded Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (2016).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2016).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (2016).
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Won Wilhelm Exner Medal (2016).
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RTL: Emmanuelle Charpentier, créatrice "haute couture" pour les gènes
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2015· 12 entries
Awarded Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine (2015).
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2015).
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Awarded Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2015).
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Awarded Massry Prize (2015).
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Awarded Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2015).
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Awarded Gruber Prize in Genetics (2015).
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Awarded Hansen Family Prize (2015).
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Won Carus medal (2015).
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Awarded Science Award of Lower Saxony (2015).
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Charpentier accepted an offer from the German Max Planck Society to become a scientific member of the society and a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin
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– National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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Time magazine designated Charpentier one of the Time 100 most influential people in the world (together with Jennifer Doudna)
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2014· 6 entries
Awarded Göran Gustafsson Prize for molecular biology (2014).
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Awarded Gabbay Award (2014).
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Awarded Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research (2014).
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Awarded Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (2014).
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Published “The new frontier of genome engineering with CRISPR-Cas9” in Science — cited 6,213 times.
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Became an Alexander von Humboldt Professor
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2013· 1 entry
Charpentier co-founded CRISPR Therapeutics and ERS Genomics along with Shaun Foy and Rodger Novak
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2012· 1 entry
Published “A Programmable Dual-RNA–Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity” in Science — cited 15,623 times.
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded Eric K. Fernströms Svenska Pris (2011).
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Charpentier met Jennifer Doudna at a research conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and they began a collaboration
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2006· 1 entry
Became a privatdozentin (Microbiology) and received her habilitation at the Centre of Molecular Biology
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2004· 1 entry
Charpentier published her discovery of an RNA molecule involved in the regulation of virulence-factor synthesis in Streptococcus pyogenes
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1995· 2 entries
Studied at Pierre and Marie Curie University, doctorate in France (1995).
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Studied at Pasteur Institute, doctorate in France (1995).
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1968· 2 entries
Born 1968-12-11.
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In Juvisy-sur-Orge in France and studied biochemistry, microbiology, and genetics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (which became the Faculty of Science of Sorbonne University) in Paris
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