Emmanuelle Charpentier
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Emmanuelle Charpentier, August 2015
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December 11, 1968 Juvisy-sur-Orge, France |
| Nationality | France |
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University of Vienna Umeå University Max Planck Society |
| Alma mater |
Pierre and Marie Curie University Pasteur Institute |
| Known for | CRISPR |
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Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier, is a professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry. Since 2015 she is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology.
Born in 1968 in Juvisy-sur-Orge in France, Emmanuelle Charpentier studied biochemistry, microbiology and genetics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) in Paris. She was graduate student at the Institut Pasteur from 1992 to 1995, and was awarded a research doctorate.
Charpentier worked as a University Teaching Assistant at UPMC in Paris from 1993 to 1995 and as a post-Doc at the Institut Pasteur from 1995 to 1996. She moved to the US and worked as post-Doc at the Rockefeller University in New York from 1996 to 1997. She worked as Assistant Research Scientist at the New York University Medical Center from 1997 to 1999 and in 1999 held the position of Research Associate at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and at the Skirball Institue of Biomolecular Medicine in New York from 1999 to 2002.
After five years, she returned to Europe and became lab head and guest Professor at the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Vienna University from 2002 to 2004. From 2004 till 2006 she was lab head and assistant Professor at the Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology. In 2006 she became private docent (Microbiology) and received her habilitation at the Centre of Molecular Biology. From 2006 to 2009 she worked as lab head and associate Professor at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories.
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