Jennifer Doudna
The Power List 2020 – Advanced Medicine
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Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology at the University of California, Berkeley
Early in her career, Doudna’s lab determined some of the first crystal structures of RNA and RNA-protein complexes. In 2012, she rose to fame after co-discovering the revolutionary gene editing technology, CRISPR-Cas9. She later co-founded Caribou to commercialize the technology. Recently, Doudna’s team created a COVID-19 diagnostic lab from scratch, with the capability to process more than 1,000 patient samples per day.
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