To Umeå as a new Nobel Prize winners? – Vasterbotten Courier

Umeå Genetics researcher Karen Emanuelle Charpentier visit soon Umeå and can do what recent Nobel Prize laureate .

Next Friday Charpentier participate in an anniversary symposium at Umeå University as part of årshögtidens programs. What conditions are enabling breakthrough research, what conditions attract the next generation of researchers? the issues discussed during the symposium. The symposium also featured The MIMS Excellence by Choice Programme, an anniversary price Charpentier receives in connection with årshögtiden.
Charpentier is a visiting professor at Umeå University, and together with the American Jennifer Doudna developed a tool to alter genes. Now Charpentier chance to get the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year. At least if you believe the American company Thomson Reuters, which each year makes a list of possible laureates, which VK previously reported on.

This year’s Nobel Laureates in Chemistry will be announced just before lunch Wednesday October 7