NEWS Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier has been elected into the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as a foreign member of the Academy’s Class for biosciences.
“I am incredibly honoured to receive such an acknowledgement from the members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. I look forward to participating in the Academy’s operations,” says Emmanuelle Charpentier.
Professor Charpentier recently took up her post as director of Regulation in Infection Biology at Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. As a visiting professor at Umeå University, she and her team are studying the basic mechanisms of infection in so-called Gram-positive bacteria, such as streptococci and listeria, on a cellular and molecular level. She and her colleagues revealed the so-called CRISPR-Cas9 mechanism, an adaptive immune system protecting bacteria against attacks from foreign DNA.
Previously, Professor Charpentier has been awarded among others the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the Gruber Foundation International Prize in Genetics. Ske was also recently appointed honorary doctor at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and 2016 Human Frontier Science Program Nakasone Awardee. In March 2016, she will be honoured with the L'Oreal – UNESCO "For Women in Science" Award.
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Abdel El Manira, professor of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet, and Nikolai Piskunov, professor of Observational Astrophysics at Uppsala University, were elected into the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at the General Meeting on 11 November.
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