
Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D.
Founder & Chair of the IGI Governance Board
Jennifer Doudna is a Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Doudna lab pursues a mechanistic understanding of fundamental biological processes involving RNA molecules.
Jennifer is also the Executive Director of the Li Ka Shing Center for Genomic Engineering, the Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair in Biomedical and Health Sciences, and a member of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.