Fwd: UC Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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From: Dean Michael Botchan <[hidden email]>
Date: Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 2:30 PM
Subject: UC Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Dear Friends of the College of Letters & Science:

You may have already heard this incredible news, but I am thrilled to share with you that UC Berkeley’s Professor Jennifer Doudna was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of a method for genome editing.” She shares this award with Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin.

Jennifer, who holds joint appointments at Berkeley in Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry, is an exceptional scientist, whose capacity to solve important scientific questions at an atomic level is balanced by her unsurpassed knowledge of the life sciences in general. The extraordinary and well-deserved honor of the Nobel Prize reflects her brilliance, ingenuity, and deep dedication to human health and the ethical use of scientific discovery to improve life on this planet.

Jennifer and her research team have toiled untold hours to perfect CRISPR-Cas9 and to pursue applications that serve the public good. I am proud of Berkeley’s long partnership with Jennifer, and I wish her all the best as she continues her groundbreaking work. We will be with her every step of the way.

Please join me in congratulating Jennifer Doudna on the tremendous honor of her Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For more information, you can read the Berkeley press release here.

CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing and how it works - with Jennifer Doudna

Watch Jennifer Doudna's Nobel Prize Press Conference

Sincerely, 

 

Michael Botchan
Dean, Division of Biological Sciences
College of Letters & Science, UC Berkeley

 

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