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Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier
(born 11 December 1968) is a
French
researcher of
microbiology
,
genetics
and
biochemistry
. She is known for her work in
CRISPR
gene editing.
From 2015 she was 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.
In 2020, Charpentier and
Jennifer Doudna
were awarded the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
"for the development of a method for
genome editing
".
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In 2015, she was one of
Time
magazine's 100 most influential people in 2015, also with Doudna.
Charpentier was born in
Juvisy-sur-Orge
,
Ile-de-France
.
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