Emmanuelle Charpentier

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Full Name	Emmanuelle Charpentier
Occupation	Microbiologist
Date Of Birth	Dec 11, 1968(1968-12-11)
Age	56
Birthplace	Juvisy-sur-Orge
Country	France
Birth City	Île-de-France
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Emmanuelle Charpentier Biography

Emmanuelle Charpentier is one of the most popular and richest Microbiologist who was born on December 11, 1968 in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Île-de-France, France. In 1968, in Juvisy-sur-Orge in France Charpentier was a biochemist as well as microbiology and genetics within the Pierre and Marie Curie University (today the Faculty of Science of Sorbonne University) in Paris. She was an undergraduate student at the Institut Pasteur from 1992 to 1995. She was awarded a doctorate of research.

Charpentier relocated to Sweden and was made Lab head and Associate Professor in the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) which is located in Umea University. The position was held between 2009 and 2014 and was promoted to lab head and visiting professor in 2014. She relocated to Germany to serve as Department Head and W3 professor in the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig and at the Hannover Medical School from 2013 until 2015. In 2014 she became an Alexander von Humboldt Professor.

In 2015 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. Since 2016, Emmanuelle is a Honorary Professor at Humboldt University in Berlin, and since 2018, she is the Founding and Acting Director of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens. Charpentier retained her position as Visiting Professor at Umeå University until the end of 2017, where a new donation from the Kempe Foundations and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has given her the opportunity to offer more young researchers positions within research groups of the MIMS Laboratory.

In The United States, she returned to Europe and was made the lab’s head and assistant professor for the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Vienna from 2002 until 2004. From 2004 to 2006 , she was lab head as well as an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology. In 2006, she was a private docent (Microbiology) and completed her habilitation from the Centre of Molecular Biology. From 2006 until 2009, she was the lab’s director as well as Associate Professor in The Max F. Perutz Laboratories.

Emmanuelle Charpentier Net Worth

Emmanuelle Charpentier is one of the richest Microbiologist from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Emmanuelle Charpentier 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (born 11 December 1968) is a French professor and researcher in genetics, microbiology and biochemistry. From 2015 to present, Charpentier is director of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany. She established an institute of independent research called known as the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens.

Charpentier worked as a teacher assistant in Curie between 1993 and 1995. She was also postdoctoral fellow at the Institut Pasteur from 1995 to 1996. She then moved to the US to work as postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University in New York from 1996 until 1997. She was an assistant researcher scientist for the New York University Medical Center from 1997 until 1999. She also was in the position of research associate at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine in New York from 1999 to 2002.

Charpentier has been awarded numerous international prizes, awards and acknowledgements, including the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, the Gruber Foundation International Prize in Genetics, the Leibniz Prize, Germany’s most prestigious research prize, the Japan Prize, and the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience. She has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award jointly with Jennifer Doudna and Francisco M. Mojica, whose pioneering work has ignited “the revolution in biology permitted by CRISPR/Cas 9 techniques.” These tools facilitate genome modification with an unprecedented degree of precision, and far more cheaply and straightforwardly than any previous method. Not unlike today’s simple, intuitive word processing programs, CRISPR/Cas 9 is able to “edit” the genome by “cutting and pasting” DNA sequences: a technology so efficient and powerful that it has spread like wildfire round the laboratories of the world, explains the jury, “as a tool to understand gene function and treat disease.” Also, in the spring of 2015, Time Magazine designated Charpentier one of the 100 most influential people in the world (together with Jennifer Doudna).

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Emmanuelle Ranked on the list of most popular Microbiologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in France. Emmanuelle Charpentier celebrates birthday on December 11 of every year.

Top Facts about Emmanuelle Charpentier

1. Emmanuelle Charpentier is a French microbiologist and biochemist.
2. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020.
3. Charpentier co-developed CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology.
4. She studied at universities in France, Germany, Sweden, and the US.
5. Charpentier has received numerous awards for her scientific contributions.
6. She is a member of several prestigious scientific organizations.
7. Charpentier has published over 100 research articles in top journals.
8. Her work has revolutionized genetic engineering and biotechnology fields.
9. Charpentier advocates for diversity and gender equality in science.
10. She currently leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany.

Who actually discovered CRISPR?

Francisco Mojica is credited as the person who discovered that sequences of DNA had repeats in them, with regularly-spaced intervals; this concept is the basis of CRISPR, or “Clustered-Regularly-Interspaced-Short-Palindromic- Repeats.” His discovery of this concept was the basis for all future work done with CRISPR.

What did Emmanuelle Charpentier discover?

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.

Did Emmanuelle Charpentier win a Nobel Prize?

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on CRISPR-Cas9—a method to edit DNA.

Where is Emmanuelle Charpentier now?

Charpentier currently lives in Germany , where she is chair of the Regulation in Infection Biology Department at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and a Professor at the Hannover Medical School. She also remains affiliated with the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine at Umea University, Sweden.

Who is the leader in CRISPR technology?

Intellia Therapeutics surged to the top spot among CRISPR stocks in 2021.