The 2017 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Life Science
• Achievement:
  Elucidation of the genome editing mechanism by the CRISPR-Cas
• Lecture:
  A CRISPR World: From Biology to Technology of Genome Editing

Awards

1999	National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research
2000	Alan T. Waterman Award, National Science Foundation
2014	Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences, Foundation for the NIH
2015	Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences＊
2015	Princess of Asturias Award of Technical and Scientific Research＊
2016	Canada Gairdner International Award＊＊
2016	Tang Prize (Biopharmaceutical Science), Taiwan＊＊

＊ Jointly received with E. Charpentier

＊＊ Jointly received with E. Charpentier and F. Zhang

Recognition

2002	Member, National Academy of Sciences
2003	Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2010	Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Education

1985	Pomana College, B.A. in Biochemistry
1989	Harvard Medical School, Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Research and Career

1989-91	Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School
1991-94	Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Colorado
1994-02	Yale University, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Henry Ford II Professor
1997-	Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2002-	Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Affiliation

• University of California, Berkeley
  Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
  708A Stanley Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3220

Publication, Thesis

• Haurwitz RE, Wiedenheft B, Zhou K, Doudna JA. (2010) Sequence-and structure-specific RNA processing by a CRISPR endonuclease.
  Science 329(5997):1355-8.
• Jinek M, Chylinski K, Fonfara I, Hauer M, Doudna JA, Charpentier E. (2012)
  A programmable dual-RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity.
  Science 337(6096):816-21
• Sternberg SH, Redding S, Jinek M, Greene EC, Doudna JA. (2014)
  DNA interrogation by the CRISPR RNA-guided endonuclease Cas9.
  Nature 507(7490):62-7 PMCID: PMC4106473
• Kranzusch PJ, Lee AS, Wilson SC, Solovykh MS, Vance RE, Berger JM, Doudna JA. (2014)
  Structure-guided reprogramming of human cGAS dinucleotide linkage specificity.
  Cell 158(5):1011-21 PMCID: PMC4157622
• O'Connell MR, Oakes BL, Sternberg SH, East-Seletsky A, Kaplan M, Doudna JA. (2014)
  Programmable RNA recognition and cleavage by CRISPR/Cas9.
  Nature 516(7530):263-6 PMCID: PMC4268322