Emmanuelle Charpentier was born on December 11, 1968 in Juvisy-sur-Orge, France.
Founded an independent research institute, the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens.
Director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany.
Known for her role in deciphering the molecular mechanisms of the bacterial CRISPR/Cas9 immune system and repurposing it into a tool for genome editing.