<div dir="auto"><br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Dean Michael Botchan</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:bioscigiving@berkeley.edu">bioscigiving@berkeley.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 2:30 PM<br>Subject: UC Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry<br>To: <<a href="mailto:wimberly3@gmail.com">wimberly3@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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<span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="color:#222222">Dear Friends of the College of Letters & Science:</span></span></span></span></span></span><br>
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<span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="color:#222222">You may have already heard this incredible news, but I am thrilled to share with you that UC Berkeley’s Professor Jennifer Doudna was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry </span></span><i><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;font-size:12.0pt;padding:0in"><span style="color:#2e2a25">“for the development of a method for genome editing.”</span></span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="color:#222222"> She shares this award with Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin.</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">Jennifer, who holds joint appointments at Berkeley in Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry, is </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="color:#222222">an exceptional scientist, whose capacity to solve important scientific questions at an atomic level is balanced by her unsurpassed knowledge of the life sciences in general. The extraordinary and well-deserved honor of the Nobel Prize reflects her brilliance, ingenuity, and deep dedication to human health and the ethical use of scientific discovery to improve life on this planet.</span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="color:#222222">Jennifer and her research team have toiled untold hours to perfect CRISPR-Cas9 and to pursue applications that serve the public good. I am proud of Berkeley’s long partnership with Jennifer, and I wish her all the best as she continues her groundbreaking work. We will be with her every step of the way.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br>
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<span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="color:#222222">Please join me in congratulating Jennifer Doudna on the tremendous honor of her Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For more information, you can read the Berkeley press release <b><a href="https://click.our.berkeley.edu/?qs=5456ab78f135b33d975574e85476614cf5cc6ff9e3968689577ef45c49389951fc14466ff9c0a91ab6d0cd35900e1efd5975a09458cade0a" style="color:#001761;text-decoration:none" title="here" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">here</a></b>.<br>
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<span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span><img alt="" height="185" src="https://image.our.berkeley.edu/lib/fe93137375640c7870/m/2/f28d6e6b-5c25-4afc-a325-2a145d1da675.jpg" style="padding:0px;text-align:center;border:0px solid transparent;height:185px;width:120px" width="120"><br>
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<span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="color:#222222">Michael Botchan<br>
Dean, Division of Biological Sciences<br>
College of Letters & Science, UC Berkeley</span></span></span></span></span></span><br>
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