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Jennifer Doudna

Biochemist who co-showed in 2012 that CRISPR-Cas9 could be programmed to cut DNA at any chosen site, the basis of modern gene editing; shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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RoleProfessor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley; executive director of the Innovative Genomics Institute
AffiliationUniversity of California, Berkeley
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