Jennifer Doudna — Nobel Laureate, Co-inventor of CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing

**Jennifer Doudna** is a biochemist, Nobel laureate, and the co-inventor of **CRISPR-Cas9**, the gene-editing technology that has revolutionized biology, medicine, and agriculture. She shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Emmanuelle Charpentier for developing the CRISPR-Cas9 genetic scissors — a method for precisely editing DNA that is faster, cheaper, and more accurate than any previous technique.