Jennifer Doudna

Biologist Faculty Scientist
Professor, UC Berkeley
Principal Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Founder, Innovative Genomics Institute

Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging

Structural Biology

Building: 2151 Berkeley Way, Room 512G
JDoudna@lbl.gov
http://rna.berkeley.edu

Research Interests

Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry

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Biosciences’ Doudna Awarded National Medal of Technology and Innovation

January 7, 2025

Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, a faculty scientist in the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging (MBIB) Division, founder of the Innovative Genomics Institute, and a professor at UC Berkeley, has received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement. Doudna, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, was honored for her work developing the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology.

How to Edit the Genes of Nature’s Master Manipulators

December 5, 2022

A team led by CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna and her longtime collaborator Jill Banfield has developed a clever tool to edit the genomes of bacteria-infecting viruses called bacteriophages using a rare form of CRISPR. The ability to easily engineer custom-designed phages—which has long eluded the research community—could help researchers control microbiomes without antibiotics or harsh chemicals, and treat dangerous drug-resistant infections. A paper describing the work was recently published in Nature Microbiology.

All-star Scientific Team Seeks to Edit Entire Microbiomes with CRISPR

December 20, 2021

CRISPR enzymes are like super scissors: they cut, delete, and add genes to a specific kind of cell, one at a time. But now, UC Berkeley faculty and Biosciences Area researchers have figured out how to add or modify genes within a microbial community of many different species, coining the phrase, “community editing.”

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