From a girl who found a book to winning a Nobel Prize: Jennifer Doudna's mindset of "obsession"

Good morning! ☀️Sometimes, a single book given by your parents in the sixth grade can determine the course of your life.
Nature

CRISPR and the genome

When Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier worked out the biochemistry of the bacterial antiviral system known as CRISPR ...

Jennifer Doudna’s journey from Hawaii puzzles to Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR research

Jennifer Doudna’s journey from a childhood shaped by puzzles and Hawaii’s natural environment to winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry highlights the role of curiosity, mentorship and persistence ...
Washington Post

Walter Isaacson and Jennifer Doudna discuss ethical concerns surrounding CRISPRⓘ

Author and historian Walter Isaacson and biochemist Jennifer Doudna, PhD, discuss the moral qualms surrounding CRISPR, including whether it would be ethical to alter genes that can be passed down. “I ...
The Business Journals

Here's how the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Nobel winner Jennifer Doudna plan to cure more kids

Nicole and Kyle Muldoon with their child, KJ, who received a CRISPR gene editing therapy at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. From the San Francisco Business Times. Months after helping manufacture ...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jennifer Doudna Wins American Chemical Society’s Priestley Award

Jennifer Doudna has been named the recipient of the 2026 Priestley Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the American Chemical Society (ACS), for her high-impact discoveries on RNA molecules with ...