A brilliant heads: Nobel laureate Charpentier inspires in Vienna!

A brilliant heads: Nobel laureate Charpentier inspires in Vienna!

Wien-Landstraße, Österreich - The well -known French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier will be honored on March 11, 2025 as part of the “Dies Academicus” of the University of Vienna. The event marks the 660th day of the university. Charpentier receives the honorary doctorate for its groundbreaking contributions to genetic engineering, especially for their work on the gene scissors Crispr-Cas, which is considered a revolutionary tool for targeted gene manipulation. On this solemn opportunity, she gave a public lecture entitled "A Fascinating Journey to Crispr-Cas: The Revolution in Genes-Editing Technology" at the University of Vienna, as on the website of the Kleine Zeitung reported.

a life for science

Charpentier, which has been working at the Max Planck Research Center in Berlin since 2018, remembers her beginnings in Vienna, where she switched to the University of Umea in Sweden in 2009 due to a lack of career prospects. Her "Heureka moment" on the functional of the gene scissors is said to have occurred in the Austrian capital. Her collaboration with Jennifer Doudna at a writer that was published in "Science" in 2012 finally led to the awarding of the Nobel Prize, since the technology is considered revolutionary and redesigned the code of life. The artist duo Bele Marx & Gilles Mussard ensures the expansion of the monument "Nobel Prize and University of Vienna-Group picture with question marks" in the university's auditorium, the portraits of Charpentier and the Nobel Prize winner Anton Zeilinger.

Covid-19 and academic recognition

In addition to the celebrations for the honor of Charpentier, there are new regulations for the academic recognition of auxiliary activities, especially for students who worked during the COVID 19 pandemic. Activities that meet the required internships in the curriculum can be recognized, such as services in the nursing sector or in civilian service. The exact time frame and the hourly extent are crucial for the calculation of the eligible ECTS points, as the University of Vienna explains on its website on these topics, such as wiwi.univie.ac.at