User:Ayelyssa/Jennifer Doudna

Jennifer Doudna is a biochemist, she was born on February 19, 1964. She has done revolutionary work in CRISPR gene editing. Doudna was born and raised in Washington DC,U.S. Doudna is one of the first woman to ever receive to noble prize in sciences, in 2020, she received a noble prize in chemistry. Doudna graduated from pomona college and has gotten her Ph.D from Harvard university. She is chair profferer in the department of chemistry and the department of molecular and cell biology at Berkeley university.

Doudna lives with her husband and son in Berkeley, her husband, Jamie Cate, is a biochemistry proffers at UC Berkeley. Their son's name is Andrew, He's 12 years old. Jennifer Doudna is the daughter of Dorothy Jane and Martin Kirk Doudna, her father received a PhD in literature from the university of Michigan.

Doudna's work perceiving the structure of the ribozymes and other functional RNAs, her work is gradually increasing with the understanding of the biological function of RNAs. “Up until the late 1980s, it was known that RNA was involved in protein synthesis, but the discovery that RNA could have catalytic activity really revolutionized the whole field,",Doudna recalls, This realization of the function of a RNA made a significant change in her career.