Jennifer Doudna, PhD, shares her personal journey to co-inventing CRISPR-Cas9 for gene editing and the promise of her discovery, during a one-on-one conversation with ASGCT President Hans-Peter Kiem, MD, PhD. Welcome to the fifth episode of Giants of Gene Therapy!
Dr. Doudna has been at UC Berkeley since 2002. She is a professor in the departments of Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry, the Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Professor of Biomedical Science. She’s also the president and co-founder of the Innovative Genomics Institute. In 2020, Dr. Doudna earned the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for co-inventing CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology with Emmanuelle Charpentier, PhD.
Outside of her continued work on CRISPR technologies in the lab, Dr. Doudna is a leader in public discussion of the ethical implications of genome editing for human biology and societies.
Dr. Doudna has spoken at the ASGCT Annual Meeting and will be a keynote speaker at this year's Annual Meeting in May, talking about “CRISPR Chemistry and Applications in the Clinic.”
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