1. Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi was born on October 10,1966 and is an American chemist and Nobel laureate, known for her wide-ranging work spanning both chemistry and biology.
20 Facts About Carolyn Bertozzi
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Carolyn Bertozzi coined the term "bioorthogonal chemistry" for chemical reactions compatible with living systems.
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Carolyn Bertozzi received the MacArthur "genius" award at age 33.
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Carolyn Bertozzi is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Academy of Inventors.
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Grabowski was impressed with her work and required Bertozzi to write a thesis on this project, which was submitted and Bertozzi won the Thomas T Hoopes Undergraduate Thesis Prize with a large prize money.
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In 1996 Carolyn Bertozzi became a faculty member in the UC Berkeley College of Chemistry and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she served as the director of the Molecular Foundry.
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Carolyn Bertozzi has been an investigator with HHMI since 2000.
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In 2015, Carolyn Bertozzi moved to Stanford University to join the ChEM-H Institute.
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In particular, Carolyn Bertozzi has advanced the understanding of cell surface oligosaccharides involved in cell recognition and inter-cellular communication.
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Carolyn Bertozzi has applied the techniques of bioorthogonal chemistry to study glycocalyx, the sugars that surround the cell membrane.
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In 2008, Carolyn Bertozzi founded a startup of her own: Redwood Bioscience in Emeryville, California.
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Carolyn Bertozzi remains a part of the advisory board for the biologics sector of the company.
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Carolyn Bertozzi became a co-founder of Palleon Pharma of Waltham, Massachusetts, in 2015.
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In 2017, Carolyn Bertozzi helped found InterVenn Biosciences, which uses mass spectrometry and artificial intelligence to enhance glycoproteomics for target and biomarker discovery, ovarian cancer diagnostics, and predicting the successes and failures of clinical trials.
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Carolyn Bertozzi previously served on the research advisory board of several pharmaceutical companies including GlaxoSmithKline, and until 2021 Eli Lilly.
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Carolyn Bertozzi has over 600 publications on Web of Science; the most cited are:.
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Carolyn Bertozzi grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, the daughter of the late Norma Gloria and William Carolyn Bertozzi.
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Carolyn Bertozzi has two sisters, one of whom, Andrea Bertozzi, is on the mathematics faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Carolyn Bertozzi's father was a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Carolyn Bertozzi is a lesbian and has been out since the late 1980s.