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Emmanuelle Charpentier, associate professor at Umeå University, has been awarded the Göran Gustafsson prize – one of the most prestigious awards for young Swedish scientists. She received the prize for her discovery of the structures that control bacterial immunity, which led to the development of a molecular mechanism for modifying genes.
Five individuals will receive the award from H. M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on 31 March. Each will be awarded a research grant of SEK 4.5 million spread over three years and a personal prize of SEK 250,000. Emmanuelle Charpentier was awarded the prize in molecular biology.
Emmanuelle Charpentier leads a research group at the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) within the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine at Umeå University, and a research department at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany.
