Two reciepients of the 2016 Warren Alpert Prize awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Jennifer Doudna and Emmannuelle Charpentier were recently award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing”. In 2016,  they were awarded the Warren Alpert Prize alongside Rodolphe Barrangou, Phillipe Horvath, and Virginijus Siksnys "for remarkable contributions to the understanding of the CRISPR bacterial defense system and the revolutionary discovery that it can be adapted for genome editing."