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 February 19, 1964 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.
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Doudna at the Innovative Genomics Institute
Portrait of Jennifer Doudna by Christopher Michel for the National Academies
Shape of a self-splicing intron with two exons (shown in red and blue). DS Goodsell, 2005, PDB
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CRISPR Cas9 system
References
- ↑ "Jennifer Doudna – American biochemist". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved November 13, 2015.
- ↑ "Curriculum Vitae (Jennifer A. Doudna)" (PDF). Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Retrieved October 24, 2017.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020". nobelprize.org. Nobel Foundation. October 7, 2020. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ↑ "Jennifer A. Doudna". The Kavli Prize.
Other websites
- "Jennifer Doudna (UC Berkeley / HHMI): Genome Engineering with CRISPR-Cas9". YouTube. iBiology Science Stories. March 23, 2015.
- "Jennifer Doudna: CRISPR Basics". YouTube. Innovative Genomics Institute – IGI. November 4, 2017.
- "Into the Future with CRISPR Technology with Jennifer Doudna". YouTube. University of California Television (UCTV). October 26, 2019.