"Jennifer Doudna invented, with her colleagues, a way to edit our genes. I think that’ll be the most useful but also most morally challenging technology of the 21st century."

Walter Isaacson is the Author of “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race”. The novel provides a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.

Isaacson is a Professor of History at Tulane and an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg, a financial services firm based in New York City. He is the past CEO of the Aspen Institute, where he is now a Distinguished Fellow, and has been the chairman of CNN and the editor of TIME magazine.