Born:Jennifer Anne Doudna, (1964-02-19) February 19, 1964 (age 62), Washington, D.C., U.S.
Awards:Alan T. Waterman Award (2000), , Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award (2014), , Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2015), , Princess of Asturias Award (2015), , Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science (2016), , Japan Prize (2017), , Kavli Prize in Nanoscience (2018), , Wolf Prize in Medicine (2020), , Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2020), , Full list
Fields:Chemistry
Thesis:Towards the Design of an RNA Replicase (1989)
Website:Doudna Lab website, Hughes Institute website
Education:Pomona College (BA), , Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Known for:First X-ray based structure of catalytic RNA, , RNA interference, , CRISPR
Institutions:University of Colorado, Boulder, , Yale University, , University of California, Berkeley, , Gladstone Institutes, , University of California, San Francisco
Doctoral advisor:Jack Szostak
Doctoral students:Rachel Haurwitz, , Janice Chen, , Lei Stanley Qi, , Samuel H. Sternberg