UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

University of California, Berkeley, biochemist Jennifer Doudna today won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, sharing it with colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier for the co-development of CRISPR-Cas9, a genome editing breakthrough that has revolutionized biomedicine.

$14 million boost for Parkinson’s disease research

Two grants totaling nearly $14 million from Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) will jump-start research at UC Berkeley into the molecular and genetic causes of Parkinson’s disease.