Biography | Emmanuelle Charpentier — Charitéplatz 1, the Unit She Founded After the Prize

People treat the Nobel as a Stockholm evening that closed the story. The institute that still answers the door is here. The Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens occupies Campus Charité Mitte at Charitéplatz 1, entrance Virchowweg 12, in Berlin-Mitte. Charpentier was director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology on this campus from 2015. In 2018 she founded the independent unit that still lists her as scientific and managing director. On 7 October 2020 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for a method for genome editing. The ceremony that year was thinned by the pandemic. The address that did not move was this one. The work that started as a bacterial immune system in Vienna and Umeå is now a tool used in clinics and fields. The office a visitor can still stand in front of is the Charité gate on Virchowweg. Charitéplatz 1 is the line on the letterhead. 2018 is the year the unit opened. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Charité Campus Mitte