site.btaBulgarian Researcher Shared in Design of Nobel-Winning Technology

Nobel laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier noted that Bulgarian researcher Elitza Deltcheva was integral part of the team that helped her and Jennifer Doudna win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 for the development of a genome editing method. “Deltcheva was a driving force in the genome editing project,” Charpentier said in response to a question from BTA on Wednesday. Charpentier spoke to journalists from six media outlets from five countries, including BTA, at the annual gathering of Nobel Laureates at Lindau (Germany).