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Emmanuelle Charpentier was hired in 2008 by Umeå University as the group leader of a research group for several years. She was a visiting professor between 2014 and 2017 and became an honorary doctorate at the university in 2017.
At the time of the discovery of the Crispr-Cas9 genetic scissors, where genes can be effectively cut and, for example, DNA fragments removed, she was active at Umeå University.
– Of course it’s a lot of fun for us and puts Umeå on the world map in a new way. We are all hopeful that great and excellent discoveries will be made in the research and that it takes place at a university in northern Sweden, says Bernt Eric Uhlin, professor of medical microbiology, who recruited Emmanuelle Charpentier for Umeå.
– It is very, very important for Umeå University. Although we are increasingly hiring internationally today, it can be assumed that this will further increase the opportunity to recruit internationally, says Deputy Director Katrine Riklund.
Katrine Riklund celebrates that Emmanuelle Charpentier was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Photo: Patrick Trägårdh / TT
She says that About 15 employees gathered in a large room before today’s announcement of the Nobel Prize.
– We toast what Pommac should be. Right now I have a glass of champagne with water. As a Northerner, you don’t get things out in advance, so there were no celebrations planned. Our big official celebration is scheduled for Friday.
– We want to send a greeting to Emmanuelle Charpentier and thank her for coming to Umeå University and for doing pioneering research here. I also wish him all the best for the future.
In cancer research, for example there is hope that Crispr-Cas9 will lead to future treatments. In recent years, the discovery has been used to develop new crops that are better adapted to the climate.
– Technology to genetically modify plants has been around for a long time, but this research means that we can produce plants with changed properties in a much more efficient way. We can adapt the genes of plants and therefore their properties in a very effective way to try to understand how plants work, says Stefan Jansson, professor in the Department of Physiological Botany at Umeå University and partner with Emmanuelle Charpentier.
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