Dr. Doudna is Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She received her B.A. degree in biochemistry from Pomona College and her Ph.D. degree from Harvard University, working in the laboratory of Jack Szostak. She went to the University of Colorado as a Lucille P. Markey scholar and postdoctoral fellow with Thomas Cech. In 1994 she joined the Department of Molecular Biophysics at Yale University; in 2002 she moved to the Departments of Molecular Cell Biology and Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Doudna’s research concerns the structure and function of RNA molecules including ribozymes and viral RNAs. Dr. Doudna is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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