Jennifer Doudna

Jennifer Doudna is Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California, Berkeley, and co-inventor of the CRISPR technology, for which she has been awarded many of the most distinguished prizes available, including the 2015 $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. That same year she was listed among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time . In 2016 she had the rare honour of being elected a foreign member...See more

Jennifer Doudna is Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California, Berkeley, and co-inventor of the CRISPR technology, for which she has been awarded many of the most distinguished prizes available, including the 2015 $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. That same year she was listed among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time . In 2016 she had the rare honour of being elected a foreign member of the Royal Society. She speaks around the world about CRISPR and its implications for our future. See less