Charpentier is working at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, and Jennifer Doudna at the University of Clifornia in Berkeley. The prize money is 420,000 US-$.
China Bio news release, February 4, 2017
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna share Japan Prize 2017 for their studies on the CRISPR-Cas system’s genome editing mechanism