“Genome Editing the Future: Transforming Human and Planet Health with CRISPR”

March 25, 2026
4:00 pm to 5:15 pm

Event sponsored by

School of Medicine (SOM)
Biochemistry
Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Cell Biology
Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
Department of Medicine
Department of Surgery
Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI)
Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI)
Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM)
Neurobiology
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology

Contact

Oris, Mary

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Jennifer A. Doudna, PhD

Speaker

Jennifer A. Doudna, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Innovative Genomics Institute University of California Berkeley and UCSF/Gladstone Institutes
Dr. Jennifer A. Doudna is the Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair and a Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her groundbreaking development of CRISPR-Cas9 as a genome-engineering technology, with collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, earned the two the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and forever changed the course of human and agricultural genomics research. Register at https://duke.is/matthews-2026

Event Series

THE THOMAS J. MATTHEWS ENDOWED LECTURESHIP

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