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Jennifer Doudna

19 February 1964 – present

Jennifer Doudna is an American biochemist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for her work on RNA structure and on CRISPR gene editing. With Emmanuelle Charpentier she published a 2012 paper showing that the CRISPR-Cas9 system could be programmed to cut DNA at chosen sequences, a method widely adopted in biological research. The two shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Born in Washington, D.C.
19 February 1964

Doudna was born in the United States capital, the eldest of three daughters.

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Family moved to Hilo, Hawaii
1971

She grew up in Hawaii after her father took a teaching post at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

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Bachelor's degree in chemistry from Pomona College
1985

She graduated from the college in Claremont, California.

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PhD from Harvard Medical School
1989

Her doctoral work on catalytic RNA was supervised by Jack Szostak.

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Joined the faculty of Yale University
1994

At Yale her group determined the three-dimensional structures of large catalytic RNA molecules.

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Moved to the University of California, Berkeley
2002

She took a professorship in molecular and cell biology and chemistry at Berkeley.

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Published the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing paper with Emmanuelle Charpentier
June 2012

The paper in Science showed that Cas9 could be directed by a single guide RNA to cut DNA at a chosen site.

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Founded the Innovative Genomics Institute
2014

The Berkeley-based institute was established to develop genome editing applications in medicine and agriculture.

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Received the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
2015

She shared the prize with Emmanuelle Charpentier for the CRISPR-Cas9 work.

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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
7 October 2020

Doudna and Charpentier were recognised for the development of a method for genome editing.

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