Emmanuelle Charpentier#
Photo: Hallbauer & Floretti
| Membership Number: | 6949 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.emmanuelle-charpentier.org |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0254-0778 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2021 Scientific and Managing Director, Acting Head of Administration, Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens (MPUSP), Berlin, Germany
- Since 2015 Honorary Professor, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University (HU), Berlin, Germany
- 2018 - 2021 Scientific and Managing Director, Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens (MPUSP), Berlin, Germany
- 2018 Founding and Acting Scientific and Managing Director, Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens (MPUSP), Berlin, Germany
- 2015 - 2018 Scientific Director, Department Head, Department of Regulation in Infection Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (MPIIB), Berlin, Germany
- 2013 - 2015 Department Head, Department of Regulation in Infection Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany
- 2013 - 2015 W-3 (Full) Professor and Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany
- 2009 - 2017 Laboratory Head, Associate and Visiting Professor, The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University (UmU), Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Umeå University (UmU) and Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University (UmU), Umeå, Sweden
- 2002 - 2009 Laboratory Head, Guest, Assistant and Associate Professor, Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL, now Max Perutz Labs), University of Vienna (UniWien), Department of Microbiology & Immunobiology, University of Vienna (UniWien), and Institute of Microbiology & Genetics, University of Vienna (UniWien), Austria
- 1993 - 1995 University Teaching Assistant, University Pierre & Marie Curie (now Sorbonne University), Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Fields of Scholarship
- CRISPR-Cas
- Microbiology
- Regulatory Proteins
- Regulatory RNAs
- Streptococcus pyogenes
- Bacteriology
Honours and Awards
- 2023 US National Inventors Hall of Fame
- 2023 Prix du Rayonnement Français (catégorie scientifique)
- 2021 FEMS-Lwoff Award for Achievements in Microbiology
- 2020 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 2020 Wolf Prize in Medicine
- 2020 Carl Friedrich Gauß-Medaille
- 2019 The Scheele Award
- 2019 Richard R. Ernst Gold Medal
- 2018 Harvey Prize in Science and Technology
- 2018 The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
- 2017 The Japan Prize
- 2016 Canada Gairdner International Award
- 2016 Tang Prize for Biopharmaceutical Science
- 2016 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award
- 2016 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
- 2016 Leibniz Prize
- 2015 Massry Prize
- 2015 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
- 2015 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
