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Jennifer Doudna

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Also known as Jennifer Anne Doudna, Jennifer A. Doudna, Jennifer A Doudna, J. A. Doudna, J A Doudna, J. Doudna, J Doudna, Doudna

American biochemist

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Jennifer A. Doudna was born in 1964. She is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley.

Her work has been recognized in several collections, including the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Chemistry collection, the National Inventors Hall Of Fame collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the Time 100 collection. She has received one Nobel Prize.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2020

    “for the development of a method for genome editing”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Anne
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Washington, D.C.
Occupation
crystallographer
Employer
Yale University
Languages spoken
English language
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor
Jack Szostak
Student of
Jack Szostak
Field of work
X-ray crystallography
Image
Professor Jennifer Doudna ForMemRS (cropped).jpg
Residence
Hilo
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member of
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
date of birth
1964-02-19
Commons category
Jennifer Doudna
birth name
Jennifer Anne Doudna
influenced by
Thomas Cech
on focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject COVID-19
name in native language
Jennifer Anne Doudna
affiliation string
University of California, Berkeley
affiliation
University of California, Berkeley
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject California
interested in
biochemistry
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Encyclopedic overview

Jennifer Anne Doudna ForMemRS (/ˈdaʊdnə/; 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. 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.

In 2012, Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were the first to propose that CRISPR-Cas9 (enzymes from bacteria that control microbial immunity) could be used for programmable editing of genomes, which has been called one of the most significant discoveries in the history of biology. Since then, Doudna has been a leading figure in what is referred to as the "CRISPR revolution" for her fundamental work and leadership in developing CRISPR-mediated genome editing.

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