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Recognition for work with lasting impact

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Laureate

Maria Jasin

Born 1956 · United States · Female

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Awards

  1. 2019

    Shaw Prize — Life Science and Medicine

    Biology

    For her work showing that localized double strand breaks in DNA stimulate recombination in mammalian cells. This seminal work was essential for and led directly to the tools enabling editing at specific sites in mammalian genomes.