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Emmanuelle charpentier nobel prize

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Emmanuelle Charpentier is a French biochemist, microbiologist and geneticist. She studied at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, receiving a degree in biochemistry in 1991, and obtained her PhD in microbiology at the Pasteur Institute there in 1995.

Between 1996 and 2002 she continued her research in the United States, first in New York and then in Memphis. Returning to Europe she established her own group at the University of Vienna, where, in 2006, she became Lab Head at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories.

In 2009 she moved to the University of Umeå in Sweden, where she established a project on the CRISPR sequences. Charpentier discovered the essential role of the so-called trans-activating CRISPR RNA (tracrRNA) molecule in the immune systems in bacteria. These results led to a collaboration with Jennifer Doudna and to the demonstration, in 2012, of the potential of the CRISPR-Cas9 system for gene editing.

After Umeå, Charpentier moved to Germany and since 2015 has been Director of the Max Plank Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. For her work she has receive

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Curious, Persistent and Always Trusting my Instinct
As told by Emmanuelle Charpentier

I was born in December 1968, at the height of the student and civil protest movements and grew up in a small and relatively quiet town about 25 kilometers south of Paris. I have always been encouraged by my parents to explore my own academic interests. In school, I was an enthusiastic and aspiring student, always eager to acquire knowledge and to achieve excellence and therefore, I took my studies seriously. During my time at primary school, the oldest of my two sisters entered university and I understood already early on that academia was a place where one could continue to study, do research, teach and transfer knowledge. I therefore wanted to follow her path and was even more motivated to continue my studies.

Although it was not clear at the time that I would eventually study biology, I showed an interest in science very early on. In fact, I was interested not only in pure sciences and mathematics, but also in the human sciences — psychology, sociology and philosophy. My father liked to e

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Emmanuelle Charpentier

French microbiologist, biochemist and Nobel laureate

Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (French pronunciation:[emanɥɛlmaʁiʃaʁpɑ̃tje]; 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]

Early life and education

Born in 1968 in Juvisy-sur-Orge in France, Charpentier studied biochemistry, microbiology, and genetics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (which became the Faculty of Science of Sorbonne University) in Paris.[7]

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