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Jennifer Anne Doudna ForMemRS (/ ˈdaʊdnə /; [1] born February 19, 1964) [2] is an American biochemist who has pioneered work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics. Doudna was one of the first women to share a Nobel in the sciences.
Jennifer Doudna (born February 19, 1964, Washington, D.C.) is an American biochemist best known for her discovery, with French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier, of a molecular tool known as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9.
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Jennifer Doudna is a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and a pioneer of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology. She leads a research group at UC Berkeley and the Innovative Genomics Institute, and is involved in various projects to apply CRISPR to medicine, microbiomes, and climate change.
Learn about the life and work of Jennifer Doudna, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 for her discoveries on RNA and its role in the origin of life. Read how she pursued her passion for science despite facing challenges and obstacles as a woman and a young researcher.
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier developed a method for high-precision genome editing using CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. Learn more about their work, prize motivation and affiliation at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jennifer Doudna is a professor of molecular and cell biology and chemistry at UC Berkeley. She is a pioneer in CRISPR-Cas RNA biology and gene editing, and has published over 270 articles in scientific journals.
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Jennifer Doudna is a professor at UC Berkeley and the co-inventor of CRISPR-Cas9, a genome engineering technology that won her the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She is also a leader in the ethical discussion of genome editing and the founder of the Innovative Genomics Institute.
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