SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Biochemist Jennifer Doudna on Wednesday won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making her "the first woman on the UC Berkeley faculty to win the coveted award," the university said in a statement.
Doudna, the campus' 25th Nobel laureate, shared the prize with Emmanuelle Charpentier for the co-development of CRISPR-Cas9, a genome editing breakthrough that has revolutionized biomedicine, UC Berkeley said.
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