Biografie (Jennifer Doudna)

Jennifer A. Doudna grew up on the Big Island of Hawaii, where she became interested in chemistry and biochemistry during her high school years. She is currently Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She received her B.A. in Biochemistry from Pomona College, USA, and her Ph.D. from Harvard University, USA, working in the laboratory of Jack Szostak, with whom she also did postdoctoral research. She next went to the University of Colorado, USA, as a Lucille P. Markey scholar and postdoctoral fellow with Thomas Cech. Doudna has also been a Donaghue Young Investigator, a Searle scholar, and a Beckman Young Investigator, and she is a former fellow of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. She has received numerous awards for her research on RNA and RNA-protein structure and function.