Jennifer Doudna

Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry.

Director of the Innovative Genomics institute, Professor Doudna is best known for the discovery of the CRISPR gene editing platform. Her biography contains innumerable awards and accolades for her pioneering work in gene editing and RNA biology.

She has overseen the launch of many successful startups and has been a faculty member in UC Berkeley's Department of Molecular and Cell Biology since 2002.