Jennifer A. Doudna

Premios

1. 2015

   Premio Breakthrough — Ciencias de la vida

   Biología

   for harnessing an ancient mechanism of bacterial immunity into a powerful and general technology for editing genomes, with wide-ranging implications across biology and medicine.

2. 2016

   Premio Internacional Canadá Gairdner

   Biología

   For development of CRISPR-CAS as a genome editing tool for eukaryotic cells.

3. 2017

   Premio Japón — Ciencias de la vida

   Biología

   for deciphering the molecular details of the type II bacterial immune system CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)-Cas and the creation of the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing system, a truly revolutionary technique in genetic engineering, far more economical and faster than those previously available.

4. 2020

   Premio Nobel — Química

   Química

   for the development of a method for genome editing

5. 2020

   Premio Wolf — Medicina

   Biología

   for revealing the medicine-revolutionizing mechanism of bacterial immunity via RNA-guided genome editing.