Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist · United States · Academics · Born 1964 · age 62
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Something wrong?Dr 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 is the Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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, I had this impression from the media that science was for old white guys, people who looked like Einstein, that it wasn’t for people like me ...
... CRISPR is, in fact, a bacterial immune system. It’s an ancient system that evolved in microbes to allow prevention of viral infection.
... I just think you have to embrace your passions. You have to really go for it.
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Dr 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 at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1997.
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