Carolyn is so deserving of this honor, and all of us at Stanford are tremendously proud to call her one of our own.”Įarly Wednesday morning, Bertozzi held her hands to her face, in shock. Her work has had remarkable real-world impact, unleashing new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to treat disease. “In pioneering the field of bioorthogonal chemistry, Carolyn invented a new way of studying biomolecular processes, one that has helped scientists around the world gain deeper understanding of chemical reactions in living systems. “I could not be more delighted that Carolyn Bertozzi has won the Nobel Prize in chemistry,” said Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne. Since then, her lab and others have used them to answer fundamental questions about the role of sugars in biology, to solve practical problems, such as developing better tests for infectious diseases, and to create a new biological pharmaceutical that can better target tumors, which is now being tested in clinical trials. Bertozzi’s lab first developed the methods in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Barry Sharpless, PhD ’68, professor at Scripps Research “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.” The Nobel Prize in chemistry is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.īertozzi was recognized for founding the field of bioorthogonal chemistry, a set of chemical reactions that allow researchers to study molecules and their interactions in living things without interfering with natural biological processes. She shares the $10 million Swedish kronor (about $1 million USD) prize equally with Morten Meldal, professor at University of Copenhagen and K. Stanford chemist Carolyn Bertozzi explains her work and shares the excitement of winning the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
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