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The Lurie Prize in the Biomedical Sciences is an annual prize awarded by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), designed to honour outstanding achievement by a promising scientist age 52 or younger. Now in its second year, the $100,000 award was endowed by global philanthropist and biomedical research advocate Ann Lurie.

This year, we’re delighted that the Lurie Prize is being awarded to Professor Jennifer Doudna, Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology at University of California, Berkeley and Section Head in the Structural Biology Faculty for F1000Prime.

Professor Doudna was awarded the prize in recognition for her discovery of the CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) gene-editing technique in 2012, which has rapidly become a landmark advance in biological science and was a runner-up for Science’s “breakthrough of the year” 2013, as well as the subject of an F1000Prime Report by David Bikard and Luciano A. Marraffini last November.

Below is a short video interview from the FNIH with Professor Doudna; the full press release can be read here.