Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/22
By: Elaine Hou
Taipei, Sept. 22 (CNA) American geneticist Jennifer Doudna, one of this year’s three recipients of the
Jennifer Doudna (left)
Tang Prize in biopharmaceutical science, encouraged young Taiwanese to pursue a career in the area they are passionate about, during a speech to hundreds of high school students Thursday.
Citing her own experience, Doudna said she came from a small town in Hawaii and that no one in her family was a scientist. This background made it seem unlikely for her to be able to do what she is doing, she said.
At around age 12, her father gave her a book written by James Watson, an American molecular biologist and one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in the 1950s, Doudna said. Her chemistry teacher in high school also triggered her interest in science, she added.
The teacher taught her that “science is about solving puzzles,” which she is passionate about, Doudna told the students. [FULL STORY]
