Nobel-winning gene editing scientist Jennifer Doudna will be the subject of limited series The Code Breaker
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Walter Isaacson's bestselling book The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race is being adapted as a limited series. The potential series will revolve around UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna, who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Emmanuelle Charpentier for their work on CRISPR technology, a tool to rewrite and edit human genes, or the code of life. The project will reunite Isaacson, whose book was released in March, with producer Mark Gordon, who previously adapted the author's book Steve Jobs for the 2011 Danny Boyle-Aaron Sorkin movie of the same name. Executive producer Beth Pattinson says of the project: "At a time when science is more in the public eye than ever, it is a privilege to be entrusted with Jennifer’s story and to highlight the life-changing work performed by her and her extraordinary collaborators."
TOPICS: Nobel Prize, The Code Breaker, Beth Pattinson, Jennifer Doudna, Walter Isaacson, In Development
