The prize committee at the Faculty of Medicine, Umeå University, decided to award Emmanuelle Charpentier with Umeå University's Eric K Fernström prize 2011 for young and promising scientists. The prize amount is 100.000 Swedish Krona and Emmanuelle will receive the prize at a ceremony to be held at Lund University on November 2nd, 2011.
According to the founder of the prize, the shipowner Eric K.Fernström, the Fernström foundation awards every year six young researchers at Sweden's six university medical faculties .
Press release, Faculty of Medicine, Umeå University (in Swedish only)
Emmanuelle Charpentier's research group
Eric K. Fernström's foundation
