{"id":137169,"date":"2022-03-20T21:02:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T04:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/janice-chen-nathan-chens-sister-is-building-a-100-billion-crispr-gene-editing-company"},"modified":"2022-03-20T21:02:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T04:02:24","slug":"janice-chen-nathan-chens-sister-is-building-a-100-billion-crispr-gene-editing-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/janice-chen-nathan-chens-sister-is-building-a-100-billion-crispr-gene-editing-company","title":{"rendered":"Janice Chen, Nathan Chen\u2019s sister, is building a $100 billion CRISPR gene editing company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_r-FIlX1NJY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Janice Chen, Ph.D., one of Olympic gold medalist Nathan Chen\u2019s siblings, is on a mission to build a $100 billion biotech company.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, she co-founded Mammoth Biosciences with Trevor Martin, Lucas Harrington and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/chemistry\/2020\/doudna\/facts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\"> Jennifer Doudna<\/a> 0, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry two years later for her pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing. Doudna also served as Chen\u2019s mentor while she pursued her doctorate degree in molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>Mammoth is built on Chen\u2019s work as a graduate student researcher in Doudna\u2019s lab. Since the dawn of COVID-19 in 2020, the startup has seen accelerated growth as it snagged $100 million in multiple contracts and government grants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janice Chen, Ph.D., one of Olympic gold medalist Nathan Chen\u2019s siblings, is on a mission to build a $100 billion biotech company. In 2018, she co-founded Mammoth Biosciences with Trevor Martin, Lucas Harrington and Jennifer Doudna 0, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry two years later for her pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,19,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}