 Jennifer Doudna, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Barbara Oscher. I'm the honorary consul general of Sweden in San Francisco. I would like to welcome you to this very special occasion in Berkeley. Since 1901, the Nobel prizes have been presented to Nobel laureates at ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo on the 10th of December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. In his last will, Alfred Nobel expressed that he wanted to establish a prize and award those who have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind within the fields of science, literature, and peace. Jennifer Doudna, the lee-cashing chancellor's chair in biomedical and health sciences at UC Berkeley. As announced in October, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award you the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to you for the development of a method for genome editing. Together with your fellow Nobel laureates, you will be celebrated on December 10th in Stockholm at a prize ceremony in the city hall attended by members of the Nobel Foundation and the Nobel Prize awarding institutions. On this occasion, the work you have been awarded for will be presented in more detail. And customarily, you would have received this prize from the hands of His Majesty the King. However, this year, you will be celebrated with the distance forced upon us with this pandemic. And since you cannot go to Stockholm now, your Nobel Prize in Medal and Diploma has been brought to you here instead. So with regards from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation, it is a great honor to convey to you my warmest congratulations and ask you to receive the Nobel Prize.