Professor and Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair in Biomedical Science, UC Berkeley. Research seeks to understand how RNA molecules control the expression of genetic information. Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Member: National Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Institute of Medicine. Recipient of numerous awards, including: NSF Waterman Award; FNIH Lurie Prize; Paul Janssen Award. Doudna received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Emmanuelle Charpentier, "for the development of a method for genome editing."