8 Quotes & Sayings By Jennifer A Doudna

Jennifer A. Doudna is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and a founding member of the Janelia Research Campus. She is also an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr Read more

Doudna's research focuses on RNA-based genomic engineering, particularly CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing. She is the author of more than 140 publications and has received numerous awards for her work including the American Chemical Society Award in Organic Chemistry in 2014, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics in 2011, and the Raul Caetano Ribeiro Award in 2010.

In 2011, Rachel and I founded a company called Caribou...
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In 2011, Rachel and I founded a company called Caribou Biosciences to commercialize the Cas proteins. Jennifer A. Doudna
Editas Medicine has an exclusive multimillion-dollar license with Juno Therapeutics...
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Editas Medicine has an exclusive multimillion-dollar license with Juno Therapeutics to develop T cell therapies Jennifer A. Doudna
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PGD has also been used for other controversial purposes, such as the birth if so-called savior siblings, destined from the moment of implantation not only to live their own lives, but also to serve as organ or cell donors for a sibling. Jennifer A. Doudna
We founded Editas Medicine with $43 million in financing from...
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We founded Editas Medicine with $43 million in financing from three venture capital firms. Jennifer A. Doudna
As we began discussing authorship of a white paper summarizing...
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As we began discussing authorship of a white paper summarizing our conclusions, we debated who our target audience should be and what kind of outcome we were hoping to achieve. Jennifer A. Doudna
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Have no doubt, this technology will – someday, somewhere – be used to change the genome of our own species in ways that are heritable, forever altering the genetic composition of human kind. Jennifer A. Doudna
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It’s not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into the human genome. Jennifer A. Doudna