Jennifer Doudna quotes:

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

One can envisage taking cells from a patient with sickle-cell anaemia or an inherited blood disorder and using the Cas9 system to fix the underlying genetic cause of the disease by putting those cells back into the patient and allowing them to make copies of themselves to support the patient's blood.

In the past, when we've tried gene therapy, we haven't had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction.

I think that for a lot of women there's a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields.

I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.