CYNTHIA KENYON

Cynthia Kenyon, biochemist and geneticist, is revolutionizing our understanding of aging. She is creating new ways to help us live longer and happier lives by developing methods to slow aging and prevent age-related diseases. As an expert in biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California at San Francisco, she is particularly interested in the influence that […]

MARIE MAYNARD DALY

Marie Maynard Daly, a biochemist, was the first African American woman in the United States to earn a PhD in Chemistry, awarded by Columbia University in 1947. Daly made numerous contributions to the world’s current understanding of the metabolism and composition of the cell nucleus. She also developed programs to increase the number of minorities […]

KATHY NIAKAN

Kathy Niakan was named one of Time magazine’s Pioneers for the 100 Most Influential People of 2016. She has begun to apply the technique for editing the genome that Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have developed, also known as CRISPR. Niakan does this to study the effects of genes in human development. Her experiments will […]

JENNIFER DOUDNA

Jennifer Doudna was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2015. She is a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-inventor of CRISPR. She, along with Emmanuelle Charpentier, developed CRISPR to study the effects of genes in human development. Doudna wrote that the “real excitement–and power–in genetics […]