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Date: Friday, October 16, 2015 13:30 - 16:30
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Umeå University honours Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier for her pioneering research with the powerful discovery of CRISPR-Cas9, which has already been of great importance by providing new opportunities for Life Science research and its applications in Biology and Medicine.

Umeå University will present a special Jubilee Award to Emmanuelle Charpentier at the University's Annual Celebration Ceremony in 2015: The MIMS Excellence by Choice Programme.

Welcome to the Jubilee Symposium "Excellence by Choice" 

on Friday 16 October 13.30 - 16.30 Aula Nordica

Invited speakers:

Emmanuelle Charpentier, Professor
MIMS guest professor, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, head of department at Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig

Jörg Hacker, Professor
President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle (Saale), Germany

Dirk Heckl, PhD
Junior Research Group Leader, Department of Pediatric Hematology & Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Germany

Iain Mattaj, Professor
Director General, European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

Andrea Puhar, PhD
MIMS Group Leader, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University

Bernt Eric Uhlin, Professor
Director MIMS and UCMR, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University

Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, Professor
Gene Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Venue: Aula Nordica

The event is open to everybody - no registration needed

More information about the annual ceremony
Press Release about the Umeå University EC Jubilee Award