Jennifer Doudna. Co-founder of CRISPR-Cas9.
She co-invented CRISPR-Cas9. It changed biology worldwide.
In 1964, she was born in the USA.
In 1989, she completed her PhD in Biochemistry at Harvard University.
In 2012, she co-invented CRISPR-Cas9.
1. CRISPR-Cas9, a gene-editing tool that cuts and modifies DNA.
2. It offers hope to treat genetic diseases.
3. She co-founded Caribou Biosciences in 2011 and Editas Medicine in 2013.
In 2020, she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Her research reshaped modern genetics.
She currently leads gene-editing research at the University of California, Berkeley.
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