Emmanuelle Charpentier, Germany

Lecture title: TRANSFORMING LIFE SCIENCES THROUGH THE POWER OF MICROBIOLOGY: THE EXAMPLE OF GENE EDITING WITH CRISPR

Emmanuelle Charpentier is a French microbiologist, geneticist and biochemist. She is founder, scientific and managing director of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin. She is co-founder of CRISPR Therapeutics and ERS Genomics with Rodger Novak and Shaun Foy. She has received numerous prestigious international awards and honors, and is an elected member of national and international scientific academies. More information about Emmanuelle is available at http://www.emmanuelle-charpentier.org/