Jennifer Doudna
This list of awards and honors received by Jennifer Doudna comprehensively shows the awards, honors, honorary degrees, fellowships and other recognition received by Jennifer Doudna , an American biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley .[ 1] She has received many prestigious awards and fellowships for her numerous contributions to biochemistry and genetics , and is most famous for her work on CRISPR -Cas9 genome editing technology.[ 2] Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing."[ 3] [ 4]
1996 Beckman Young Investigators Award [ 5]
1999 NAS Award for Initiatives in Research [ 6]
2000 Alan T. Waterman Award for innovative research that led to the development of a technique that facilitates crystallization of large RNA molecules; for determining the crystal structures of catalytic RNA molecules and an RNA molecule that forms the ribonucleoprotein core of the signal recognition particle; and for deciphering structural features of those molecules that permit a greater understanding of the mechanistic basis of RNA function in both catalysis and protein synthesis. [ 7]
2001 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry of the American Chemical Society [ 6]
2013 Inaugural recipient of the Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology [ 8]
2014 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award (jointly with Feng Zhang and Emmanuelle Charpentier )[ 9]
2014 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health [ 6]
2014 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research (shared with Charpentier)[ 6]
2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (shared with Charpentier) 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. [ 10]
2015 Massry Prize (shared with Charpentier and Philippe Horvath )[ 11]
2015 Princess of Asturias Awards (shared with Charpentier)[ 6]
2015 Gruber Prize in Genetics (shared with Charpentier)[ 12]
2016 Canada Gairdner International Award , with Charpentier, Feng Zhang, Horvath and Rodolphe Barrangou [ 13]
2016 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (with Charpentier, Rodolphe Barrangou , Horvath and Virginijus Siksnys )[ 14]
2016 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (jointly with Charpentier)[ 15]
2016 Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics[ 16]
2016 Tang Prize (jointly with Charpentier and Feng Zhang)[ 17]
2016 HFSP Nakasone Award (jointly with Charpentier)[ 18]
2016 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (jointly with Charpentier and Francisco Mojica )
2016 L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science (jointly with Charpentier)[ 19]
2017 Japan Prize (jointly with Charpentier)[ 20]
2017 F. Albert Cotton Medal[ 21]
2017 Albany Medical Center Prize (jointly with Charpentier, Luciano Marraffini, Francisco Mojica, and Feng Zhang)[ 22]
2017 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization [ 23]
2018 Dickson Prize in Science from Carnegie Mellon University [ 24]
2018 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience (jointly with Charpentier and Siksnys) for the invention of CRISPR-Cas9, a precise nanotool for editing DNA, causing a revolution in biology, agriculture, and medicine. [ 25]
2018 Croonian Medal and Lecture of the Royal Society [ 26]
2018 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize from the Rockefeller University [ 27]
2018 Medal of Honor (jointly with Charpentier, Charis Eng and Michael Thun ) of the American Cancer Society [ 28]
2018 Harvey Prize (jointly with Emmanuelle Charpentier and Feng Zhang )[ 29]
2018 Emanuel Merck Lectureship [ 30]
2019 Lui Che Woo Prize in Welfare Betterment Prize[ 31]
2019 Nierenberg Prize [ 32]
2019 Microbiology Society Prize Medal [ 33]
2020 Wolf Prize in Medicine (jointly with Emmanuelle Charpentier )[ 34]
2020 Guggenheim Fellowship [ 35]
2020 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science[ 36]
2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (jointly with Emmanuelle Charpentier ) for the development of a method for genome editing. [ 3]
2023 National Inventors Hall of Fame [ 37] [ 38]
2025 National Medal of Technology and Innovation .[ 39]
Memberships and fellowships [ edit ]
2000 Named one of Discover magazine's 20 Young Scientists to Watch[ 51]
2000 Jean Francois LeFevre Memorial Lectureship, CNRS, Strasbourg [ 6]
2000 Robert Burns Woodward Visiting Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University [ 6]
2015 Named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world, together with Emmanuelle Charpentier[ 52]
2016 Listed as a runner-up for Time Person of the Year , alongside other CRISPR researchers[ 53]
2016 Kavli Lecturer, Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP)[ 54]
2018 George E. Palade Memorial Lecture in Cell Biology, Yale University [ 55]
2018 Forbes ' America's Top 50 Women In Tech[ 56]
2021 Forbes 50 Over 50; made up of entrepreneurs, leaders, scientists and creators who are over the age of 50.[ 57]
^ "Curriculum Vitae (Jennifer A. Doudna)" (PDF) . Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Retrieved October 24, 2017 .
^ Pollack, Andrew (May 11, 2015). "Jennifer Doudna, a Pioneer Who Helped Simplify Genome Editing" . The New York Times . Retrieved May 12, 2015 .
^ a b "Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020" . nobelprize.org . Nobel Foundation. October 7, 2020. Retrieved October 7, 2020 .
^ Wu, Katherine J.; Zimmer, Carl; Peltier, Elian (October 7, 2020). "Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to 2 Scientists for Work on Genome Editing" . The New York Times . Retrieved October 7, 2020 .
^ "Beckman Young Investigators Award Recipients" . Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Retrieved November 6, 2017 .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Curriculum Vitae (Jennifer A. Doudna)" (PDF) . Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Retrieved October 24, 2017 .
^ "Alan T. Waterman Award Recipients, 1976 – present" . National Science Foundation. Retrieved October 31, 2017 .
^ Wear, Maggie (2013). "Doudna wins new Mildred Cohn award" . ASBMB Today .
^ "Emmanuelle Charpentier receives Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award" . Umeå University. Archived from the original on August 25, 2017. Retrieved October 31, 2017 .
^ "Laureates (Jennifer A. Doudna)" . breakthroughprize.org . Retrieved October 31, 2017 .
^ "Massry winners helped launch gene editing revolution" . University of Southern California. October 7, 2015. Retrieved November 6, 2017 .
^ "2015 Genetics Prize: Jennifer Doudna" . The Gruber Foundation. Retrieved October 24, 2017 .
^ "Jennifer Doudna" . Canada Gairdner Foundation. Retrieved November 2, 2017 .
^ "Alpert Prize Recognizes CRISPR Pioneers" . Harvard Medical School. March 9, 2016. Retrieved October 20, 2020 .
^ "Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 2016 for Charpentier and Doudna" . Press Office of the Paul Ehrlich Foundation. Retrieved March 14, 2016 .
^ "Heineken Prizes – Jennifer Doudna" . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on May 13, 2016. Retrieved May 10, 2016 .
^ "Laureates: Biopharmaceutical Science (2016)" . Tang Prize Foundation. Retrieved November 1, 2017 .
^ "The 2016 HFSP Nakasone Award goes to Emmanuelle Charpentier & Jennifer Doudna" . Human Frontier Science Programme. Archived from the original on September 27, 2018. Retrieved September 9, 2016 .
^ "2016 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards" . UNESCO. Retrieved November 6, 2017 .
^ "Laureates of the Japan Prize: Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D." The Japan Prize Foundation. Retrieved November 1, 2017 .
^ "UC Berkeley Prof and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Jennifer Doudna to Receive 2017 Cotton Medal" . Texas A&M University. Archived from the original on April 7, 2017. Retrieved November 1, 2017 .
^ "Gene Editing Pioneers Selected to Receive America's Most Distinguished Prize in Medicine" . Albany Medical Center. Retrieved November 1, 2017 .
^ http://wonderfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SaganPrize2017-release.pdf [bare URL PDF ]
^ Panko, Ben (January 12, 2018). "Biochemist Doudna Wins CMU's Dickson Prize in Science" . Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .
^ "2018 Kavli Prize Laureates" . The Kavli Prize. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .
^ "Re-writing the Code of Life: CRISPR Systems and Applications of Gene Editing" . The Royal Society. Retrieved March 19, 2019 .
^ "Jennifer Doudna to receive the 2018 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize" . The Rockefeller University. September 13, 2018. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .
^ Sanders, Robert (October 18, 2018). "Doudna receives Medal of Honor from American Cancer Society" . Berkeley News . Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
^ Harvey Prize 2018
^ Merck Group
^ "Dr Jennifer A. Doudna" . luiprize.org . Retrieved October 20, 2020 .
^ "Biochemist Jennifer Doudna to Receive 2019 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest" . September 12, 2019.
^ "PRIZE MEDAL LECTURE TO BE GIVEN BY DR CHRISTOF FELLMANN" . Microbiology Society. Retrieved October 15, 2021 .
^ "The Wolf Prize" .
^ "Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020" .
^ "Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science | Office of Research" . www.vumc.org .
^ "2023 Inductee Jennifer Doudna | National Inventors Hall of Fame®" . www.invent.org . December 28, 2023. Retrieved December 29, 2023 .
^ Avril, Tom (January 10, 2023). "Penn scientists are honored for mRNA research used in COVID vaccines" . The Philadelphia Inquirer .
^ The White House (January 3, 2025). "President Biden Honors Nation's Leading Scientists, Technologists, and Innovators" . The White House . Retrieved January 4, 2025 .
^ "Honorary degrees awarded to nine outstanding individuals" . YaleNews . May 22, 2016. Retrieved July 11, 2018 .
^ "Emmanuelle Charpentier & Jennifer Doudna" . KU Leuven. August 18, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2021 .
^ "198th Congregation (2017)" . University of Hong Kong. Retrieved May 9, 2018 .
^ Nevatia, Karan (April 9, 2018). "USC to grant five honorary degrees in May" . Daily Trojan. Retrieved May 9, 2018 .
^ "Biographies of Spring 2019 honorary degree recipients" . York Media Relations. June 10, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
^ "York University will celebrate outstanding community leaders with honorary degrees during convocation" . yFile. June 10, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
^ "Honorary degree recipients for 2019 announced" . The University of Oxford. March 25, 2019. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
^ "University of Chicago to award six honorary degrees at 2021 Convocation" . University of Chicago. July 15, 2020. Retrieved October 14, 2021 .
^ "Nobel Prize Awarded to ASM Members for Development of CRISPR-Cas9" . American Society for Microbiology. Retrieved October 18, 2021 .
^ Anon (2016). "Professor Jennifer Doudna ForMemRS" . London: Royal Society . Archived from the original on April 29, 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies" . Archived from the original on September 25, 2015. Retrieved March 9, 2016 .{{cite web }}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )
^ Dulle, Colleen (August 13, 2021). "Pope Francis appointed three women to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences this summer. What's their role at the Vatican?" . America Magazine. Retrieved October 15, 2021 .
^ Speed Weed, William (January 19, 2000). "20 Young Scientists to Watch" . discovermagazine.com . Retrieved October 9, 2020 .
^ King, Mary-Claire. "Time 100 Most Influential People: Emmanuelle Charpentier & Jennifer Doudna Archived August 9, 2018, at the Wayback Machine ". Time. April 16. 2015. Web. December 25, 2016.
^ Park, Alice. "The CRISPR Pioneers: Their Breakthrough Work Could Change the World. " Time. N.d. 2016. Web. December 25, 2016.
^ "Kavli Lecturer Doudna wins Nobel Prize" . Council of Scientific Society Presidents. Archived from the original on October 23, 2020. Retrieved November 28, 2020 .
^ Xiong, Amy (April 13, 2018). "Discoverer of CRISPR visits Yale" . Yale Daily News. Retrieved May 9, 2018 .
^ "Jennifer Doudna" . Forbes .
^ Gross, Elana Lyn; Voytko, Lisette; McGrath, Maggie (June 2, 2021). "The New Golden Age" . Forbes . Retrieved June 2, 2021 .