Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/doudna/facts/
She has been a professor at UC Berkeley since 2002. And
“in 2012, Doudna and her colleagues made a new discovery that reduces the time and work needed to edit genomic DNA. Their discovery relies on a protein named Cas9 found in the Streptococcus bacterial “CRISPR” immune system that cooperates with guide RNA and works like scissors. The protein attacks its prey, the DNA of viruses, and slices it up, preventing it from infecting the bacterium. This system was discovered by Francisco Mojica, but she and Emmanuelle Charpentier showed for the first time that they could use different RNAs to program it to cut and edit different DNAs.”