Charpentier currently lives in Germany, where she is chair of the Regulation in Infection Biology Department at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and a Professor at the Hannover Medical School. She also remains affiliated with the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine at Umea University, Sweden.

Where does Emmanuelle Charpentier Jennifer doudna work?

Today, in her Berlin laboratory as a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Charpentier continues to study bacterial CRISPR systems and to work on further refinements of the gene editing technology that sprang from it.

What company does Emmanuelle Charpentier work for?

In 2013 Charpentier co-founded CRISPR Therapeutics, a company that employed CRISPR methodology for gene therapy in humans, with operations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and headquarters in Zug, Switzerland. Charpentier was a member of the company's scientific advisory board.