Jennifer Doudna

Jennifer Doudna (född 1964) är professor i kemi och molekylärbiologi vid University of California, Berkeley. Hon är internationellt känd för sitt arbete med CRISPR-tekniken för genredigering.

År 2020 tilldelades hon ihop med Emmanuelle Charpentier Nobelpriset i kemi. Läs mer här.

Doudna växte upp i Hilo på Hawaii. Trots att Charpentier växte upp i Paris påminde deras första möte om bådas barndomshem. Läs mer om deras första möte här.

Doudnas akademiska bana började 1985 med en kandidatexamen i kemi vid Pomona College i Kalifornien. Därefter disputerade hon i biokemi på Harvard University. År 2000 blev hon professor i molekylärbiologi och biokemi vid Yale, och 2002 blev hon professor i samma ämnen vid University of California, Berkley.

Hennes bok Sprickan i skapelsen handlar om vägen till hennes största upptäckt hittills: gensaxen. Inte sedan atomkraften har en ny teknologi haft så oöverskådliga konsekvenser att upphovsmännen känt sig tvungna att varna för sin upptäckt. Läs mer om hur det känns att öppna för en flodvåg här.

Doudna har kunnat använda gensaxtekniken till att skapa ett covidtest som ger svar inom fem minuter. Läs mer här.

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: Jennifer Doudna. Photo: Sam Willard

: Jennifer Doudna talks with a colleague on the phone in the early hours of the morning at her home in Berkeley Calif. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. Doudna received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work with CRISPR. Credit: UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small

: Jennifer Doudna talks with a colleague on the phone in the early hours of the morning at her home in Berkeley Calif. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. Doudna received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work with CRISPR. Credit: UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small

: Jennifer Doudna talks with a colleague on the phone in the early hours of the morning at her home in Berkeley Calif. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. Doudna received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work with CRISPR. Credit: UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small

: Jennifer Doudna drinks a cup of coffee as she talks with reporters in the early hours of the morning at her home in Berkeley Calif. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. Doudna received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work with CRISPR. Credit: UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small

: Jennifer Doudna laughs as she drinks a cup of coffee and talks with reporters in the early hours of the morning at her home in Berkeley Calif. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. Doudna received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work with CRISPR. Credit: UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small

: Jennifer Doudna drinks a cup of coffee as she talks with reporters in the early hours of the morning at her home in Berkeley Calif. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. Doudna received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work with CRISPR. Credit: UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small

: Jennifer Doudna celebrates with her husband Jamie Cate and son Andy in the early hours of the morning at her home in Berkeley Calif. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. Doudna received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work with CRISPR. Credit: UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small

: Jennifer Doudna celebrates with her husband Jamie Cate and son Andy in the early hours of the morning at her home in Berkeley Calif. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. Doudna received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work with CRISPR. Credit: UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small

: Jennifer Doudna waits for the start of a press conference at UC Berkeley in Berkeley Calif. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. Doudna received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work with CRISPR Cas9. Credit: UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small

: Jennifer Doudna waits for the start of a press conference at UC Berkeley in Berkeley Calif. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. Doudna received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work with CRISPR Cas9. Credit: UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small

: Jennifer Doudna sits for a press conference at UC Berkeley in Berkeley Calif. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. Doudna received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work with CRISPR Cas9. Credit: UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small

: Jennifer Doudna sits for a press conference at UC Berkeley in Berkeley Calif. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. Doudna received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work with CRISPR Cas9. Credit: UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small

: Jennifer Doudna talks during a press conference at UC Berkeley in Berkeley Calif. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. Doudna received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work with CRISPR Cas9. Credit: UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small

: Nobel Prize-winning UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna with a model of CRISPR-Cas9. Doudna spoke about the gene-editing process with Radiolab podcast in 2015. (UC Berkeley photo by Stephen McNally)

: UC Berkeley photo by Keegan Houser

: Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Photo by UC Berkeley/Keegan Houser

: Nobel Prize-winning UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna with a model of CRISPR-Cas9. Doudna spoke about the gene-editing process with Radiolab podcast in 2015. (UC Berkeley photo by Stephen McNally)

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