Agnel Sfeir
BornFebruary 19, 1964 (1964-02-19) (age 60)
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  • Telomeres and the DNA damage response
  • Mitochondrial DNA replication and repair
  • Mito-nuclear crosstalk
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WebsiteSfeir Lab website

Agnel Sfeir (/ˈ/;[1]

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Jennifer Doudna
 
Doudna in 2023
Born (1964-02-19) February 19, 1964 (age 60)
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SpouseJamie Cate
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ThesisTowards the Design of an RNA Replicase (1989)
Doctoral advisorJack Szostak
Other academic advisorsThomas Cech
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WebsiteDoudna Lab website
Hughes Institute website

Jennifer Anne Doudna ForMemRS (/ˈddnə/;[2] born February 19, 1964)[3] is an American biochemist who has pioneered 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."[4][5] 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.[6]

Doudna graduated from Pomona College in 1985 and earned a Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1989. Apart from her professorship at Berkeley, she is also the founder and chair of the governance board of the Innovative Genomics Institute, which she co-founded in 2014.[7] Doudna is also a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes, and an adjunct professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).[8][9][10][11]


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  2. ^ "Pondering 'what it means to be human' on the frontier of gene editing". The Washington Post. May 3, 2016. Archived from the original on October 15, 2020. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
  3. ^ "Jennifer Doudna – American biochemist". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Archived from the original on October 7, 2020. Retrieved November 13, 2015.
  4. ^ Wu, Katherine J.; Zimmer, Carl; Peltier, Elian (October 7, 2020). "Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to 2 Scientists for Work on Genome Editing". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 8, 2020. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  5. ^ "Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020". nobelprize.org. Nobel Foundation. October 7, 2020. Archived from the original on January 15, 2021. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  6. ^ "Curriculum Vitae (Jennifer A. Doudna)" (PDF). Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 15, 2017. Retrieved October 24, 2017.
  7. ^ "Jennifer Doudna". Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI). Retrieved December 29, 2023.
  8. ^ Multiple sources:
  9. ^ Melissa Marino (December 1, 2004). "Biography of Jennifer A. Doudna". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 101 (49): 16987–16989. Bibcode:2004PNAS..10116987M. doi:10.1073/PNAS.0408147101. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 535403. PMID 15574498. Wikidata Q34553023.
  10. ^ Agnel Sfeir's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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