Today we are congratulating our colleagues Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for receiving the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of a method for genome editing”.

This is a prize with many connections to our research group: Emanuelle Charpentier holds an honorary doctorate at Umeå University and was based at MIMS, Umeå University when her group made the groundbreaking discoveries related to the CRISPR-Cas9 mechanism. And Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley, is a former collaborator of Lars’ on the mechanism of HIV-1 selective genome packaging.

Congratulations Emanuelle and Jennifer!