Jennifer Doudna
Jennifer Anne Doudna (born February 19, 1964)[1] is an American biochemist. Her work on CRISPR gene editing won her the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Emmanuelle Charpentier.[2] The award was:
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| Born | Jennifer Anne Doudna 19 February 1964 (aged 61) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Education | Pomona College (BS) Harvard University (MS, PhD) |
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| Fields | Biochemistry CRISPR-Cas RNA biology Gene editing |
| Institutions | Pomona College University of California, Berkeley Yale University Gladstone Institutes University of California, San Francisco |
| Thesis | Towards the design of an RNA replicase (1989) |
| Other academic advisors | Thomas Cech |
| Influenced | Rachel Haurwitz |
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Doudna earned her PhD at Harvard University in 1994. She worked at Yale University with a group of scientists studying RNA.[5]
Career
Doudna is known for co-inventing the CRISPR-Cas9 which genetically modifies DNA. She has won medals such as the Kavi Prize, The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, The Gruber Genetics Prize, and the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize.
Doudna currently works as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Doudna teaches chemistry and molecular cell biology. She is also an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Jennifer Doudna Media
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Doudna at the Innovative Genomics Institute
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Portrait of Jennifer Doudna by Christopher Michel for the National Academies
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Shape of a self-splicing intron with two exons (shown in red and blue). DS Goodsell, 2005, PDB
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Jennifer Doudna - 26658740020
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CRISPR Cas9 system
References
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- ↑ Wu, Katherine J.; Zimmer, Carl; Peltier, Elian (October 7, 2020). "Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to 2 Scientists for Work on Genome Editing". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/science/nobel-prize-chemistry-crispr.html. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
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