Rodolphe Barrangou
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Rodolphe Barrangou is the Todd R. Klaenhammer Distinguished Professor in Probiotics Research in the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences at North Carolina State University; Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CRISPR Biotechnologies; Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Ancilia Biosciences; Co-Founder, President and Chief Scientific Officer of TreeCo; and Co-Founder and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Intellia Therapeutics. His research focuses on CRISPR-Cas9 in bacteria.[1]
In 2017, Barrangou was named[2] Editor-in-Chief of The CRISPR Journal, a peer-reviewed journal covering the field of genome editing and CRISPR research, which debuted in February 2018.
He was elected as a member into the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.[3] He was also elected into the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 for the discovery of CRISPR-Cas genome editing and engineering microbes, plants, and animals for food and other applications.
Background
[edit]Dr Barrangou's research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, and institutional grants.[4] He previously worked as an adjunct professor of Food Science at Pennsylvania State University, and R&D Director of Genomics at DuPont.
In 2007, Barrangou was the first author on a paper published in Science providing experimental proof for the immune function of CRISPR.[5] He has worked with Jennifer Doudna on Cas9 guided RNA characterization. He has been awarded 17 patents as of 2016.[4]
Education
[edit]- B.S. (1996) Paris Descartes University
- M.S. (2000) University of Technology of Compiegne in Biological Engineering
- M.S. (2000) North Carolina State University in Food Science
- Ph.D. (2004) North Carolina State University in Functional Genomics
- Executive MBA (2011) University of Wisconsin–Madison
Awards
[edit]- 2018 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences
- 2017 NAS Award in Molecular Biology
- 2016 Canada Gairdner International Award
- 2016 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize
- 2015 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (I-2878-2014)
- 2015 NC State University Faculty Scholar
- 2014 NC State Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award recipient
- 2014 Inducted into Phi Tau Sigma, the Honor Society for Food Science
- 2011 NC State Food Science Outstanding Young Alumni award recipient
- 2008 Danisco Innovation Award Recipient
- 2003 National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow
References
[edit]- ^ "Rodolphe Barrangou – NC State University". Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences. 18 September 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Rodolphe Barrangou, PhD, appointed Editor-in-Chief of The CRISPR Journal". www.liebertpub.com.
- ^ "May 1 2018 NAS Election". National Academy of Sciences. 1 May 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ a b Barrangou CV
- ^ Barrangou, Rodolphe; Fremaux, Christophe; Deveau, Hélène; Richards, Melissa; Boyaval, Patrick; Moineau, Sylvain; Romero, Dennis A.; Horvath, Philippe (2007-03-23). "CRISPR provides acquired resistance against viruses in prokaryotes". Science. 315 (5819): 1709–1712. Bibcode:2007Sci...315.1709B. doi:10.1126/science.1138140. hdl:20.500.11794/38902. ISSN 1095-9203. PMID 17379808. S2CID 3888761.