JENNIFER DOUDNA HONORED WITH NATIONAL MERIT OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

Jennifer Doudna, a UC Berkeley biochemist who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, has been awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement.

President Joe Biden named Doudna and 10 other technology medalists in a White House announcement last Friday, Jan. 3.