Rodolphe Barrangou

Rodolphe Barrangou
Nationality	French
Institutions	DuPont North Carolina State University
Alma mater	University of Paris V – Rene Descartes University of Technology of Compiegne North Carolina State University University of Wisconsin – Madison

Rudolphe Barrangou is an Associate Professor of Food Science and Todd R. Klaenhammer Distinguished Scholar in Probiotics Research at North Carolina State University. His research focuses on CRISPR-Cas9 in bacteria.^[1]

Background

His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, and institutional grants.^[2] He previously worked as an Adjunct Professor of Food Science at Pennsylvania State University, and R&D Director of Genomics at DuPont. He has worked with Jennifer Doudna on Cas9 guided RNA characterization. He has been awarded 17 patents as of 2016.^[3]

Education

• B.S. (1996) University of Paris V – Rene Descartes
• 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

• 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

1. https://fbns.ncsu.edu/faculty-directory/rodolphe-barrangou/
2. https://fbns.ncsu.edu/faculty/CV/Barrangou_CV_2016.pdf
3. https://fbns.ncsu.edu/faculty/CV/Barrangou_CV_2016.pdf