WOMEN IN SCIENCE TO REMEMBER – Part 2 – Carolyn Bertozzi

Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi (1966) is an American chemist and Nobel laureate known for her wide-ranging work spanning chemistry and biology.

She received her B.A. summa cum laude in chemistry from Harvard University, where she won the Thomas T. Hoopes Undergraduate Thesis Prize. She did her master’s and PhD at Berkeley (University of California), where she discovered that viruses can bind to sugars in the body.

She continued her studies at San Francisco (UCSF). Bertozzi made it possible to modify proteins and sugar molecules in the walls of living cells so the cells could accept foreign materials such as implants.

Back at Berkeley, she founded the field of bioorthogonal chemistry. This new research field allows chemically modifying molecules in living organisms without interrupting all other processes in the cell.
She co-founded seven companies.

Moving to Stanford University, she continued research on glycobiology and bioorthogonal chemistry. In 2022, she received a joined Nobel Prize for this research.

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Source: Wikipedia