Chemistry laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier has expressed her ambition to win another Nobel Prize, after receiving the esteemed award this
week, reported AFP. The
Chemistry laureate spoke about her desire in the live ceremony crowning the
Nobel awards week on Thursday. She explained that winning this prize is
obviously “life changing” but she still had many ambitions to fulfill. “One
ambition would be to win another Nobel prize, of course!” she told AFP.

“But if I want to one day make another discovery, I know
I’ll need to isolate myself for some years, and I think that’s pretty much
impossible at the moment,” Charpentier said.

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The Nobel
awards usually took place in the grand royal banquet in Stockholm but this year
COVID-19 pandemic pushed it to live ceremony.

If
Charpentier wins another award she would become another person to win two Nobel
prizes after Marie Curie who became the first person to be awarded with two
Nobel prizes in history. Charpentier will take forward the acheivement and
legacy of scientist Marie Curie, who won Nobel prize in 1911 for Chemistry and
8 years later won second Nobel prize for Physics.

The
51-year-old French geneticist won the Nobel chemistry prize for the
gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA “scissors”, a tool that
allows scientists to snip DNA and edit the genetic code of animals, plants and
microorganisms.

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This new
discovery has big implications for producing new medicines and for scientists’
understanding of the role of genes in biology and disease.

Charpentier
won this award along with Jennifer Doudna.

Charpentier
has been awarded with several professional acheivements and awards this year
but for her Nobel was special as it is “held in the highest regard by public”,
said the Chemistry laureate.