The Science Corps team would like to congratulate Professors Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry! Science Corps co-founder Ben Rubin interviewed Professor Doudna last year, and we'd like to bring this wonderful interview back — check it out!
Thumbnail photo credit: Nobel Prize Outreach. Brittany Hosea-Small.
Professors Doudna and Charpentier were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary gene-editing tool that has transformed biology and medicine. Their discovery has opened the door to treating genetic diseases, improving crops, and fundamentally changing how scientists interact with DNA.
Science Corps co-founder Ben Rubin conducted this interview as part of our commitment to bringing scientists' stories to a broader audience — showing students and communities worldwide that science is done by real people with fascinating journeys.