The Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) has announced that the 2016 HFSP Nakasone Award has been awarded to Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany and Umeå University, Sweden for their seminal work on gene editing by means of the CRISPR-Cas9 system.