Awards, Decorations, Honors, Prizes & Other Recognitions

Emmanuelle Charpentier

 

 

A.  Elected Member of Academies (25)

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2024

• Elected Member of the American Academy of Achievement

• Elected Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe)

• Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society (For Mem RS)

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 2023 

•  Elected International Honorary Member (IHM) of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 

 

2021 

• Elected Foreign Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 

• Appointed Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (ceremony yet to take place) 

• Elected Member of the Académie de Berlin

 

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 (17)

 

2024

• Doctor Honoris Causa; University of Perugia, Italy

• Doctor Honoris Causa; Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

• Doctor Honoris Causa; University of Bologna, Italy

• Doctor Honoris Causa; University of Oslo, Norway

• Doctor Honoris Causa; University of Saskatchewan, Canada

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 2023 

• Doctor Honoris Causa; Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic (ceremony yet to take place) 

• Doctor Honoris Causa; Liège University, Belgium 

 

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. Honorary & Visiting Appointments (4)

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2024

• Honorary Fellow at Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK (sabbatical yet to take place)

 

2016

• Honorary Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (affiliation with Max Planck Director)

 

2015

• Vallee Visiting Professor, The Vallee Foundation (sabbatical yet to take place)

 

2014

• Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Germany (Honorary since 2016)

 

 

D.  Awards, Decorations, Honors & Prizes (76)

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2025

• Prix Franco-Allemand de la Personnalité 2025 (Chambre Franco-Allemande de Commerce er d'Industrie (Deutsch-Französische Industrie und Handelskammer (AHK))

 

2024

• American Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award

• Paul Crutzen Medal (European Academy of Sciences and Arts)

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2023 

• Inductee of US National Inventors Hall of Fame

• Honorary Citizen of Umeå (ceremony yet to take place)

• Prix du Rayonnement Français (catégorie scientifique)

• The Scheherazade Foundation Gold Medal Award

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2022 

• The Capo d'Orlando Prize 

 

2021 

• Grande Médaille d'Or de la Société d'Encouragement au Progrès

• FEMS-Lwoff Award for Achievements in Microbiology 

• Commander of the French National Order of the Legion of Honour (Commandeur de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur) (ceremony yet to take place) 

 

2020 

• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 

• Hall of Fame for German Research (Manager Magazin and Merck) 

• The Wolf Prize in Medicine 

• Carl Friedrich Gauß-Medaille

 

2019

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

• The Scheele Award

• 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

• Harvey Prize in Science and Technology

• 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

• BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

• 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

 

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

• SelectBio: 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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E.  Recognition in the Broader Community of World Affairs (Selected)

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2025 

• OOOM 100: The world’s most inspiring people (3/100) 

 

2024

• STAT Status List – 50 Leaders in Life Sciences

• OOOM 100: The world’s most inspiring people (36/100)

 

2023 

• OOOM 100: The world’s most inspiring people (47/100) 

• Web of Science: Highly Cited Researcher

 

2022 

• Forbes: 50 Over 50 – EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) 

• Global Leaders Today: Global 100 Inspirational Leaders (49/100) 

• OOOM 100: The world’s most inspiring people (78/100) 

• Web of Science: Highly Cited Researcher 

 

2021 

• Worth: Groundbreakers 2021 – 50 women changing the world 

• Web of Science: Highly Cited Researcher 

 

2020 

​   •  Berlin Boxx Business Magazin: Top 70 

• OOOM 100: The world’s most inspiring people (6/100) 

• Vanity Fair: 50 French women who made 2020 (25/50) 

• Web of Science: Highly Cited Researcher

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2019 

• Manager Magazin/Boston Consulting Group: 100 most influential business women in Germany 

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

• Web of Science: Highly Cited Researcher 

 

2018

• Forbes: Europe’s Top 50 Women in Tech 

• Forbes: World’s Top 50 Women in Tech 

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

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

• Web of Science: Highly Cited Researcher 

 

2017

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

 

2016

• Tagespiegel’s 100 Köpfe

• 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)

 

2015

• Fierce Biotech’s 25 most influential people in biopharma

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

• 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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F.   Additional Information

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

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