Jennifer Doudna

Jennifer Doudna

Jennifer Anne Doudna (; born February 19, 1964) is an American biochemist who has done pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics. Doudna was one of the first women to share a Nobel in the sciences. 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.Doudna graduated from Pomona College in 1985 and earned a Ph.D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jennifer Doudna has received more than 2,102,835 page views. Her biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Jennifer Doudna is the 369th most popular chemist (up from 487th in 2019), the 3,532nd most popular biography from United States (up from 8,565th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular American Chemist.