Featured researcher
Jennifer A. Doudna
Biochemist and genome-editing pioneer associated with the University of California, Berkeley.
Biography
Jennifer A. Doudna is a biochemist whose research helped turn CRISPR from a bacterial defense system into one of the defining tools of modern genome editing. Her public scholarly record shows a body of work that moves between RNA structure, molecular machinery, and the practical systems that made precise gene editing a central method across biology and medicine.
This feature is built from public OpenAlex records, so it focuses on source-backed research signals rather than private biography. The video highlights the scale of Doudna's indexed publications, the papers that other researchers continue to cite, the topic signature around CRISPR and RNA biology, and the reach of her work across scholarly institutions and countries.
The goal is not to reduce a career to a few numbers. It is to give visitors a readable portrait of a research record whose influence is visible in the way later work keeps returning to the same ideas, methods, and discoveries.
Research metrics and source context are drawn from OpenAlex public scholarly records.
Annual citations across signature papers
OpenAlex yearly citation counts for the signature works used in this feature.
Research that anchors the feature
A Programmable Dual-RNA–Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity
17197 citations in OpenAlex.
The new frontier of genome engineering with CRISPR-Cas9
6921 citations in OpenAlex.
Repurposing CRISPR as an RNA-Guided Platform for Sequence-Specific Control of Gene Expression
5159 citations in OpenAlex.
CRISPR-Cas12a target binding unleashes indiscriminate single-stranded DNase activity
4340 citations in OpenAlex.
CRISPR-Mediated Modular RNA-Guided Regulation of Transcription in Eukaryotes
3787 citations in OpenAlex.
RNA-programmed genome editing in human cells
2148 citations in OpenAlex.
CRISPR–Cas9 Structures and Mechanisms
2056 citations in OpenAlex.
DNA interrogation by the CRISPR RNA-guided endonuclease Cas9
1883 citations in OpenAlex.
How to cite this feature
Significant Figures Editors. “Jennifer A. Doudna.” Significant Figures, Featured researchers, June 2026. https://sigfigsstudio.com/featured/researchers/jennifer-a-doudna/.