# Emmanuelle Charpentier (@emmanuelle-charpentier)

Emmanuelle Charpentier was a microbiologist and genome-editing researcher. Her work on Streptococcus pyogenes identified tracrRNA's role in CRISPR-Cas9 and led to collaboration with Jennifer Doudna on programmable DNA cutting.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Emmanuelle Charpentier's public record._

## Topics

- [Building CRISPR-Cas9](/@emmanuelle-charpentier/building-crispr-cas9.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Pathogen Research](/@emmanuelle-charpentier/pathogen-research.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Principal Contribution](/@emmanuelle-charpentier/principal-contribution.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/charpentier/facts/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/popular-information/
- blog: https://www.mpusp.mpg.de/emmanuelle-charpentier

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "emmanuelle-charpentier", "question": "…"}`.