List of awards and honors received by Jennifer Doudna

Awards

• 1996 Beckman Young Investigators Award.
• 1999 NAS Award for Initiatives in Research.
• 2000 Alan T. Waterman Award for innovative research that led to the development of a technique that facilitates crystallization of large RNA molecules; for determining the crystal structures of catalytic RNA molecules and an RNA molecule that forms the ribonucleoproteincore of the signal recongition particle; and for deciphering structural features of those molecules that permit a greater understanding of the mechanistic basis of RNA function in both catalysis and protein synthesis.
• 2001 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.
• 2013 Inaugural recipient of the Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
• 2014 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award.
• 2014 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.
• 2014 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research.
• 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for harnessing an ancient mechanism of bacterial immunity into a powerful and general technology for editing genomes, with wide-ranging implications across biology and medicine.
• 2015 Massry Prize.
• 2015 Princess of Asturias Awards.
• 2015 Gruber Prize in Genetics.
• 2016 Canada Gairdner International Award, with Charpentier, Feng Zhang, Horvath and Rodolphe Barrangou.
• 2016 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, with Charpentier, Rodolphe Barrangou, Horvath and Virginijus Siksnys.
• 2016 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize.
• 2016 Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics.
• 2016 Tang Prize.
• 2016 HFSP Nakasone Award.
• 2016 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.
• 2016 L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science.
• 2017 Japan Prize.
• 2017 F. Albert Cotton Medal.
• 2017 Albany Medical Center Prize.
• 2017 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization
• 2018 Dickson Prize in Science from Carnegie Mellon University
• 2018 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for the invention of CRISPR-Cas9, a precise nanotool for editing DNA, causing a revolution in biology, agriculture, and medicine.
• 2018 Croonian Medal and Lecture of the Royal Society.
• 2018 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize from the Rockefeller University.
• 2018 Medal of Honor of the American Cancer Society.
• 2018 Harvey Prize.
• 2019 Lui Che Woo Prize
• 2019 Nierenberg Prize
• 2020 Wolf Prize in Medicine.
• 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2020 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science

  Honorary degrees

• 2016 Received Doctor of Science as an honorary degree from Yale University
• 2017 Received Doctor of Science honoris causa as an honorary degree from the University of Hong Kong
• 2018 Received an honorary degree from the University of Southern California
• 2019 Received Doctor of Science as an honorary degree from York University
• 2019 Received Doctor of Science as an honorary degree from the University of Oxford.

  Memberships and fellowships

• 2002 Member, National Academy of Sciences.
• 2003 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• 2010 Member, National Academy of Medicine.
• 2014 Fellow, National Academy of Inventors.
• 2016 Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.

  Other recognition

• 2000 Jean Francois LeFevre Memorial Lectureship, CNRS, Strasbourg.
• 2000 Robert Burns Woodward Visiting Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University.
• 2015 Named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world, together with Emmanuelle Charpentier.
• 2016 Listed as a runner-up for Time Person of the Year, alongside other CRISPR researchers.
• 2018 George E. Palade Memorial Lecture in Cell Biology, Yale University.
• 2018 Forbes' America's Top 50 Women In Tech