• Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing.
• Serves as the Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair Professor in the departments of chemistry and molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
• Co-founder at Gene Editing & Innovation.
• Pioneered work in CRISPR gene editing and co-proposed in 2012 that CRISPR-Cas9 could be used for programmable genome editing.
• Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1997.

Biography