Scientific collaborations are precarious territory for women

Photo caption: Emmanuelle Charpentier (left) and Jennifer Doudna (right) won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — the first all-female team to win a Nobel. Photo credit: Miguel Riopa/AFP/Getty. Article by Sara Reardon. Nature – May 3, 2022. 

Closed networks and ingrained biases can make women’s collaborations a balancing act.

Nobel laureates Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier first met at a 2011 conference in Puerto Rico, where both gave talks about a then little-known biological system called CRISPR–Cas9, which bacteria use as an immune defense. They immediately hit it off. “She was coming to CRISPR from a very different perspective than I was,” Doudna says. “And I liked her.” […]

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