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Jennifer Doudna

Jennifer Anne Doudna

American biochemist.

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Female

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Human

Educated At

Harvard University
 ( - 1989)
Pomona College
 ( - 1985)
Hilo High School

Country of Citizenship

United States

Occupation

Biochemist
Molecular Biologist
University Teacher
Chemist
Crystallographer

Given Name

Jennifer
Anne

Member Of

National Academy of Sciences
 (2002 - )
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Medicine
Royal Society
 (2016 - )
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
 (2021 - )

Date of Birth

2/19/1964

Award Received

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Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
 (2015)
Together With
:
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Point in Time
: 2015
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
 (2015)
Together With
:
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Affiliation
:
University of California, Berkeley
Affiliation
:
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Affiliation
:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Award Rationale
: for harnessing an ancient mechanism of bacterial immunity into a powerful and general technology for editing genomes, with wide-ranging implications across biology and medicine.
Point in Time
: 2015
Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
 (2014)
Together With
:
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Point in Time
: 2014
Gruber Prize in Genetics
 (2015)
Affiliation
:
University of California, Berkeley
Point in Time
: 2015
Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
 (2016)
Point in Time
: 2016
Dickson Prize in Medicine
 (2016)
Point in Time
: 2016
Canada Gairdner International Award
 (2016)
Point in Time
: 2016
Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics
 (2016)
Point in Time
: 2016
Massry Prize
 (2015)
Point in Time
: 2015
Tang Prize
 (2016)
Point in Time
: 2016
L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science
 (2016)
Point in Time
: 2016
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
 (2016)
Point in Time
: 2016
Alan T. Waterman Award
 (2000)
Point in Time
: 2000
Gabbay Award
 (2014)
Together With
:
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Together With
:
Feng Zhang
Point in Time
: 2014
Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences
 (2014)
Point in Time
: 2014
Warren Alpert Foundation Prize
 (2016)
Point in Time
: 2016
Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
 (2018)
Together With
:
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Together With
:
Virginijus Šikšnys
Affiliation
:
University of California, Berkeley
Award Rationale
: for the invention of CRISPR-Cas9, a precise nanotool for editing DNA, causing a revolution in biology, agriculture, and medicine
Point in Time
: 2018
Croonian Medal and Lecture
 (2018)
Point in Time
: 2018
Japan Prize
 (2017)
Together With
:
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Point in Time
: 2017
Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
 (2018)
Point in Time
: 2018
Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry
 (2013)
Point in Time
: 2013
NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
 (2018)
Point in Time
: 2018
Fellow of the AACR Academy
 (2017)
Point in Time
: 2017
Wolf Prize in Medicine
 (1/13/2020)
Together With
:
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Point in Time
: 1/13/2020
William O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research
 (1999)
Award Rationale
: For her pioneering studies, which have enabled the determination of complex RNA structures, especially those of ribozymes, through X-ray crystallography.
Point in Time
: 1999
Harvey Prize
 (2018)
Point in Time
: 2018
F. A. Cotton Medal
 (2017)
Point in Time
: 2017
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (2020)
Together With
:
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Award Rationale
: for the development of a method for genome editing
Award Rationale
: för utveckling av en metod för genomeditering
Point in Time
: 2020
Beckman Young Investigators Award
 (1996)
Point in Time
: 1996
Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry
 (2001)
Point in Time
: 2001
Time 100
 (2015)
Together With
:
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Point in Time
: 2015
Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science
 (2020)
Point in Time
: 2020
Murray Goodman Memorial Prize
 (2016)
Point in Time
: 2016
Guggenheim Fellowship
 (2020)
Field of Work
:
Biochemistry
Field of Work
:
Molecular Biology
Point in Time
: 2020
Nierenberg Prize
 (2019)
Point in Time
: 2019
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
 (2016)
Point in Time
: 2016
Announcement Date
: 4/29/2016
Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
 (1996)
Point in Time
: 1996
John Scott Award
 (2016)
Point in Time
: 2016
Clarivate Citation Laureates
 (2015)
Award Rationale
: "for the development of the CRISPR-cas9 method for genome editing."
Field of Work
:
Chemistry
Point in Time
: 2015
Albany Medical Center Prize
 (2017)
Point in Time
: 2017
Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization
National Inventors Hall of Fame
 (2023)
Point in Time
: 2023
National Medal of Technology and Innovation
 (2025)
Point in Time
: 2025
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
 (2008)
Point in Time
: 2008
Alma Dea Morani Award
 (2021)
Point in Time
: 2021
Washington, D.C.
Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Transcription
Hepatitis C Virus
RNA Interference
Ribosome
X-Ray Crystallography
Jennifer Anne Doudna
Jack Szostak
University of California, Berkeley
 (2002 - )
Start Time
: 2002
University of California, San Francisco
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yale University
 (1994 - 2002)
End Time
: 2002
Start Time
: 1994
Doudna
Doctor of Philosophy
Hilo
Corwin Hansch
Sharon Panasenko
Jack Szostak
Thomas Cech
Jack Szostak
Jennifer Anne Doudna
English
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2015
Subject Named As
:Jennifer Doudna
Represents
:
University of California, Berkeley
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016
Subject Named As
:Jennifer Doudna
Represents
:
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Jamie H. D. Cate
Board of Directors Member
 (4/26/2018 - )
Organization Directed by the Office or Position
:
Johnson & Johnson
Start Time
: 4/26/2018
Jennifer Doudna: We Can Now Edit Our DNA. But Let's Do It Wisely
Jennifer Doudna
Blue
Biochemistry
Academic Major
:
Biochemistry
Academic Degree
:
Doctor of Philosophy
End Time
: 1989
Subject Has Role
:
Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
Start Time
: 2002
Subject Has Role
:
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Start Time
: 2016
Academic Major
:
Chemistry
Academic Degree
:
Bachelor's Degree
End Time
: 1985
Series Ordinal
:2
Start Time
: 2021
Series Ordinal
:1