Creator of CRISPR-Cas9 awarded Nobel Prize

摘要

Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the CRISPR-Cas9 system. Emmanuelle cofounded ERS Genomics in 2014, together with Rodger Novak and Shaun Foy "We have been looking forward to this day for some time and we at ERS are so pleased for Emmanuelle. We offer our hearty congratulations for this well-deserved recognition of her fundamental contribution to the discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 platform and its application to genome editing," said Eric Rhodes, Chief Executive Officer of ERS Genomics.