Jennifer Doudna, faculty scientist in the Molecular Biophysics & Integrated Bioimaging Division, will share the prize with Emmanuelle Charpentier and Feng Zhang. They were honored “for the development of CRISPR/Cas9 as a breakthrough genome editing platform that promises to revolutionize biomedical research and disease treatment.” The awards, announced over the weekend in Taipei by Nobel laureate Y. T. Lee, each come with a cash prize of $1.24 million, in addition to funds for research. Read more at Berkeley News Center.
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