Philippe Horvath
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Philippe Horvath | |
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| Born | April 17, 1970 |
| Education | Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg |
| Occupation | Scientist |
| Employer(s) | DuPont Nutrition and Health |
Philippe Horvath is a French scientist working for DuPont Nutrition and Health. His work was integral to the development of CRISPR-Cas, a versatile biochemical method for targeted genetic engineering. For this work, he was awarded the 2015 Massry Prize along with Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, as well as the 2016 Canada Gairdner International Award, with his Massry co-laureates in addition to Feng Zhang, Rodolphe Barrangou, Anthony Fauci, and Frank Plummer.
Born in Colmar, as the family name Horvath indicates, he is of Hungarian ancestry. After attending school in Colmar, Horvath studied cellular and molecular biology at the Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, where he obtained a Master's in 1996 and a Ph.D. in 2000. After graduation, he went to the Department of Research and Development of Rhodia Food (formerly Rhône-Poulenc) in Dangé-Saint-Romain, where he worked to develop molecular biology techniques for bacterial strain screening, microbial identification, and typing of lactic acid bacteria and their phages.[1] In 2004, Rhodia Food was acquired by Danisco, and Philippe was promoted to senior scientist in 2006. The division was later purchased by DuPont in 2011, and Horvath was appointed an Associate to the DuPort Fellows Forum in 2014, and a DuPont Nutrition & Health Technical Fellow in 2015.[1]
