El CRISPR Atlas

Scientists

The researchers whose work created the field, and what each of them actually contributed.

12 scientists in the Atlas. Credit in this field is genuinely contested; where attribution is disputed, the pages say so rather than picking a winner.

12 mostrados

University of California, Berkeley Jennifer DoudnaStructural biochemist who, with Emmanuelle Charpentier, showed that Cas9 could be programmed with a single… Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens Emmanuelle CharpentierMicrobiologist who discovered tracrRNA, the missing component of the CRISPR-Cas9 system, and shared the 2020… Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Feng ZhangBioengineer who led one of the first demonstrations of CRISPR genome editing in human cells and discovered… Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard David LiuChemical biologist whose laboratory invented base editing and prime editing — the two techniques that changed… Harvard Medical School George ChurchGeneticist whose laboratory independently demonstrated CRISPR editing in human cells in 2013, and a founder… Vilnius University Virginijus ŠikšnysLithuanian biochemist who independently showed that Cas9 could be programmed to cut DNA, publishing in 2012 —… University of Alicante Francisco MojicaMicrobiologist who recognised what CRISPR sequences actually were, and who gave the system its name. North Carolina State University Rodolphe BarrangouFood scientist who, with colleagues at a yogurt company, provided the first experimental proof that CRISPR is… University of California, Berkeley Fyodor UrnovCoined the term 'genome editing', worked on zinc finger nucleases before CRISPR, and now campaigns on the… Formerly Southern University of Science and Technology He JiankuiThe scientist who edited human embryos and brought about the birth of gene-edited children in 2018 — an act… University of Pennsylvania Kiran MusunuruCardiologist and geneticist who co-led the first bespoke base-editing treatment designed for a single patient. Prime Medicine Andrew AnzaloneFirst author of the 2019 paper introducing prime editing, conceived while a postdoctoral researcher in David…

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