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Jennifer Anne Doudna ForMemRS (/ ˈ d aʊ d n ə /; born February 19, 1964) 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 is a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, and a Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology. Her research focuses on RNA as it forms a variety of complex globular structures, some of which function like enzymes or form functional complexes with proteins.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing"
Facts. Photo: Christopher Michel. Jennifer A. Doudna. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020. Born: 19 February 1964, Washington, D.C., USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Prize motivation: “for the development of a method for genome editing” Prize share: 1/2. Work.
Dr. Jennifer A. Doudna is the Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair and a Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
May 9, 2024 · 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.
Jun 17, 2021 · Jennifer A. Doudna. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair in Biomedical and Health Sciences and Professor of Molecular Therapeutics. Lab Homepage: https://doudnalab.org. Full Directory Information.
Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, a professor at UC Berkeley and faculty scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is co-winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the development of a method for genome editing.”
Bio/CV: Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. Professor of Chemistry. Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair in Biomedical and Health Sciences. Medical School, 1989-1991. Post-doctoral fellow, University of Colorado, 1991-1994.
We spoke to biochemist Jennifer Doudna on the International day of Women and Girls in Science, 11 February. Her collaboration with fellow laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier and her reaction to receiving the Nobel Prize were two topics that were up for discussion.
