Jennifer Doudna
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2020for the development of a method for genome editingTogether with: Emmanuelle Charpentier
- Citizenship
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United States
- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 2/19/1964
- place of birth
- Washington, D.C.
- Age
- 62 years
- educated at
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- Harvard University
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- academic major: biochemistry
- end time: 1/1/1989
- Pomona College
- academic degree: bachelor's degree
- academic major: chemistry
- end time: 1/1/1985
- Hilo High School
- Harvard University
- employer
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- Yale University
- start time: 1/1/1994
- end time: 1/1/2002
- University of California, Berkeley
- start time: 1/1/2002
- University of California, San Francisco
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Yale University
- member of
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- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1/1/2002
- Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1/1/2021
- Royal Society
- start time: 1/1/2016
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- National Academy of Medicine
- National Academy of Sciences
- position held
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- board of directors member
- start time: 4/26/2018
- board of directors member
- field of work
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- X-ray crystallography
- molecular biology
- biochemistry
- ribosome
- transcription
- RNA interference
- Hepatitis C virus
- occupation
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- chemist
- university teacher
- biochemist
- crystallographer
- molecular biologist
- doctoral student
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- Akshay Tambe
- notable work
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- Jennifer Doudna: We can now edit our DNA. But let's do it wisely