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Awards

Awards, Decorations, Honors, Prizes & Other Recognitions

Emmanuelle Charpentier

 

 

A.  Elected Member of Academies

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2019

  • Elected Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium

 

2018

  • Elected Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

  • Elected Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

 

2017

  • Elected Member of the French Academy of Sciences

  • Elected Honorary Member of the New York Academy of Sciences

  • ​Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

  • Elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences

  • Elected Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy

  • Elected Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering Acatech

  • Elected Member of the National Academy of Technologies of France

 

2016

  • Elected Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

  • Elected Corresponding Member Abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

  • Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

 

2015

  • Elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

  • Elected Member of the European Academy of Microbiology

  • Elected Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society

  • Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology

 

2014

  • Elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)

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B.  Honorary Doctorate Degrees

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2019

  • Doctor Honoris Causa; McGill University, Canada

 

2018

  • Doctor Honoris Causa; Manchester University, UK

  • Doctor Honoris Causa; University of Cambridge, UK

  • Doctor Honoris Causa; Catholic University Louvain-la-Neuve (UCLouvain, UCL), Belgium

 

2017

  • Doctor Honoris Causa; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

  • Doctor Honoris Causa; Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

  • Doctor Honoris Causa; Faculty of Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden

 

2016

  • Doctor Honoris Causa; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

  • Doctor Honoris Causa; New York University (NYU), USA

  • Doctor Honoris Causa; KU Leuven, Belgium

 

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C.  Awards, Decorations, Honors & Prizes

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2021

  • FEMS-Lwoff Award for Achievements in Microbiology (ceremony still to take place)

 

2020

  • The Wolf Prize in Medicine (ceremony still to take place)

  • Carl Friedrich Gauß-Medaille (ceremony still to take place)

 

2019

  • Officer of the French National Order of Merit (Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite) (ceremony still to take place)

  • The Scheele Award

  • Harvey Prize in Science and Technology

  • Knight Commander’s Cross, Great Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern des Bundesrepublik Deutschland)

  • eyeforpharma Lifetime Achievement Award

  • Richard R. Ernst Gold Medal

  • Premio Città di Firenze sulle Scienze Molecolari

 

2018

  • Bijvoet Medal (Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University)

  • Berliner Wissenschaftpreis des Regierenden Bürgermeisters von Berlin

  • American Cancer Society Medal of Honor

  • Premio Lazzaro Spallanzani Scienza Madre

  • Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art (Das Österreichische Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst)

  • V de Vida Award (The Spanish Association Against Cancer, AECC)

  • Aachen Engineering Award

  • The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience

  • Precision Medicine World Conference Luminary Award

 

2017

  • German Orden Pour Le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (Der Orden Pour Le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste)

  • Inventor of the Year Award (Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation)

  • “Biochemical Analytics” Prize (German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine)

  • The Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research

  • Albert Einstein Foundation Leading 100 Visionaries

  • BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

  • International Ellis Island Medal of Honor

  • The Japan Prize

  • The German Innovation Award (“Deutscher Innovationspreis” Future Thinker)

  • Novo Nordisk Novozymes Prize

 

2016

  • The Meyenburg Prize

  • The John Scott Award

  • Wilhelm Exner Medal

  • Canada Gairdner International Award

  • Warren Alpert Foundation Prize

  • Tang Prize for Biopharmaceutical Science

  • HFSP (Human Frontiers Science Program) Nakasone Award

  • Knight French National Order of the Legion of Honour (Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur)

  • Research!Sweden Research Award

  • Otto Warburg Medal

  • L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award

  • Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize

  • Leibniz Prize

  • ABRF Annual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Biomolecular Technologies

  • Vallee Visiting Professorship

 

2015

  • World Technology Award for Biotechnology

  • Science Award of Lower Saxony

  • Massry Prize

  • Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research

  • Umeå University EC Jubilee Award

  • Gruber Prize in Genetics

  • Carus-Medal of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

  • Hansen Family Award (Bayer Foundation)

  • Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine

  • Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine

  • Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

 

2014

  • Grand Prix Jean-Pierre LeCocq (French Academy of Sciences)

  • Jacob and Louise Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine

  • Biotech Meeting Hall of Fame Award Winner for Scientific Achievements

  • Dr Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research

  • European Life Science Awards (2nd Investigator of the Year)

  • Göran Gustafsson Prize (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)

  • Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

 

2011

  • Eric K. Fernström Prize

 

2010

  • Umeå Biotech Incubator Business Idea Award

 

2009

  • Prize of the City of Vienna: Theodor Körner Prize for Science and Culture

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D.  Recognition in the Broader Community of World Affairs (Selected)

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2019

  • OOOM 100: The world’s most inspiring people (27/100)

 

2018

  • OOOM 100: The world’s most inspiring people (17/100)

  • Vanity Fair’s 50 most influential French people worldwide (6/50)

  • Forbes’s Europe’s Top 50 Women in Tech 2018

 

2017

  • OOOM 100: The world’s most inspiring people (5/100)

 

2016

  • TIME’s 100 persons of the year (Short List No. 5: “The trailblazers, The CRISPR pioneers”)

  • Vanity Fair’s 100 the new establishment (“The Gene-iuses”) (59/100)

  • Tagespiegel’s 100 Köpfe

 

2015

  • TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world (“The Pioneers”)

  • Fierce Biotech’s 25 most influential people in biopharma

  • Vanity Fair’s 50 most influential French people worldwide (30/100)

 

2014

  • Foreign Policy’s 100 leading global thinkers (“Innovators”)

  • Vanity Fair’s 50 most influential French people worldwide (30/100)

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E.   Additional Information

Additional information about Emmanuelle can be found at: www.emmanuelle-charpentier.org.

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