Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Emmanuelle Charpentier

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Emmanuelle Charpentier

Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. Since 2015, she has been a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. In 2018, she founded an independent research institute, the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens. In 2020, Charpentier and American biochemist Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing". This was the first science Nobel ever won by two women alone.

I was a typical French student of the 1990s - I imagined that, after a short excursion, I would work the rest of my life at home. — © Emmanuelle Charpentier
I was a typical French student of the 1990s - I imagined that, after a short excursion, I would work the rest of my life at home.
Personally, I don't think it is acceptable to manipulate the human germline for the purpose of changing some genetic traits that will be transmitted over generations.
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