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Jennifer Doudnová
born 1964
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryJennifer Anne Doudna is an American biochemist who has pioneered work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics. She received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Emmanuelle Charpentier, "for the development of a method for genome editing." She is the Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1997.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
February 19, 1964
Washington, D.C.
Citizenship
United States
Occupations & fields
biochemistmolecular biologistuniversity teacherchemistcrystallographer
Awards & honours
Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific ResearchBreakthrough Prize in Life SciencesDr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical ResearchGruber Prize in GeneticsPaul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter PrizeDickson Prize in Medicine
Notable works
Jennifer Doudna: We can now edit our DNA. But let's do it wisely
- Field and occupation
- biochemik z Spojené štáty americké
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