1. Emmanuelle Charpentier paternal grandfather, surnamed Sinanian, was an Armenian who escaped to France during the Armenian Genocide and met his wife in Marseille.
19 Facts About Emmanuelle Charpentier
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Emmanuelle Charpentier was born in 1968 in Juvisy-sur-Orge in France and studied biochemistry, microbiology, and genetics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris.
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Emmanuelle Charpentier was a graduate student at the Institut Pasteur from 1992 to 1995 and was awarded a research doctorate.
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Emmanuelle Charpentier worked as a university teaching assistant at Pierre and Marie Curie University from 1993 to 1995 and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut Pasteur from 1995 to 1996.
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Emmanuelle Charpentier moved to the US and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University in New York from 1996 to 1997.
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Emmanuelle Charpentier was an assistant research scientist at the New York University Medical Center from 1997 to 1999.
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Emmanuelle Charpentier worked in the lab of Pamela Cowin, a skin-cell biologist interested in mammalian gene manipulation.
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Emmanuelle Charpentier published a paper exploring the regulation of hair growth in mice.
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Emmanuelle Charpentier held the position of Research Associate at the St Jude Children's Research Hospital and at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine in New York from 1999 to 2002.
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In 2004, Emmanuelle Charpentier published her discovery of an RNA molecule involved in the regulation of virulence-factor synthesis in Streptococcus pyogenes.
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Emmanuelle Charpentier moved to Sweden and became lab head and associate professor at the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, at Umea University.
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Emmanuelle Charpentier held the position of group leader from 2008 to 2013 and was visiting professor from 2014 to 2017.
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Emmanuelle Charpentier moved to Germany to act as department head and W3 Professor at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig and the Hannover Medical School from 2013 until 2015.
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In 2015 Emmanuelle Charpentier accepted an offer from the German Max Planck Society to become a scientific member of the society and a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin.
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Emmanuelle Charpentier retained her position as visiting professor at Umea University until the end of 2017 when a new donation from the Kempe Foundations and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation allowed her to offer more young researchers positions within research groups of the MIMS Laboratory.
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Specifically, Emmanuelle Charpentier demonstrated that a small RNA called tracrRNA is essential for the maturation of crRNA.
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In 2011, Emmanuelle Charpentier met Jennifer Doudna at a research conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and they began a collaboration.
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Emmanuelle Charpentier has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award jointly with Jennifer Doudna and Francisco Mojica.
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In 2019, Emmanuelle Charpentier was a featured character in the play STEM FEMMES by Philadelphia theater company Applied Mechanics.