The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
Awarded on: 2020-10-07
"for the development of a method for genome editing"
Affiliations:
- University of California – Berkeley, CA, USA
Jennifer A. Doudna
Born: 1964-02-19 in Washington, D.C., USA
Gender: female
Field: American chemist and Nobel laureate (born 1964)
Biography
Jennifer 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 in the department of chemistry and the department of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1997.