Senior Editor

Prof. Barrangou received his Ph.D. at North Carolina State University with Prof. Todd R. Klaenhammer. Prof. Barrangou earned a BS in Biological Sciences from Rene Descartes University in Paris, France, an MS in Biological Engineering from the University of Technology in Compiegne, France, an MS in Food Science from NC State, a Ph.D. in Genomics from NC State and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He leads the CRISPR lab and focuses on the characterization of CRISPR-Cas immune systems and their various applications in bacteria, notably the development of probiotics and the enhancement of their health-promoting attributes. Prof. Barrangou spent 9 years in R&D at Danisco and DuPont and is not the Todd R. Klaenhammer Distinguished Professor in Probiotics Research at NC State University. Prof. Barrangou received multiple honors and awards for his early work on CRISPR, including the 2016 Warren Alpert Prize, the 2016 Canada Gairdner International Award, the 2017 NAS Award in Molecular Biology, and the 2018 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences. He has been elected into the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Inventors. Prof. Barrangou is also the former Chairman of the Board of Caribou Biosciences, a co-founder of Intellia Therapeutics, Locus Biosciences, TreeCo, Ancilia Biosciences, and CRISPR biotechnologies, and the Editor-in-Chief of the CRISPR Journal. Scientific contributions have spanned basic science to understand and decipher the genomics of lactic acid bacteria, as well as developing novel technologies and applying them to develop and formulate next-generation probiotic strains. He has published more than 200 scientific papers in high-impact journals such as Science, Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Molecular Cell, Nature Microbiology, and PNAS. Rodolphe Barrangou was nominated among the highly cited researchers since 2020 (Top 1% by citation per field and year by Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science).

CRISPR, Cas, Phage, Editing, Lactobacillus, Genomics