Jennifer A. Doudna

Awards

1. 2015

   Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

   Biology

   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

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

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

3. 2017

   Japan Prize — Life Sciences

   Biology

   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

   Nobel Prize — Chemistry

   Chemistry

   for the development of a method for genome editing

5. 2020

   Wolf Prize — Medicine

   Biology

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