SAN DIEGO – Feng Zhang, along with Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, were awarded the Tang Prize in 2016 for their work in the discovery and development of CRISPR/Cas9, but Zhang used most of his time giving the Tang Prize Award Lecture at the Experimental Biology 2018 conference to highlight the diversity of the CRISPR/Cas family and how his lab has exploited the gene editing system.