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Shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Doudna and Charpentier received the prize for developing a method for genome editing.
GOTDONE ARCHIVE · 1964 to present
3 public itemsJennifer Doudna
Biochemist
PHOTO: Christopher Michel / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Helped turn a bacterial immune mechanism into a programmable genome-editing tool and an institute for applying it.
What Jennifer got done.
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Co-founded the Innovative Genomics Institute.
IGI develops genome-editing applications across health, agriculture, and climate.
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Co-developed CRISPR-Cas9 as a programmable editing method.
Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, and collaborators showed how the bacterial system could be directed to cut chosen DNA sequences.