The Â鶹´«Ã½ Chemistry Department Presents the 61st Robbins Lecture Series
February 24-27, 2025
Carolyn Bertozzi
Stanford University
2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Professor Carolyn Bertozzi's research interests span the disciplines of chemistry and biology with an emphasis on studies of cell surface sugars important to human health and disease. Her research group profiles changes in cell surface glycosylation associated with cancer, inflammation and bacterial infection, and uses this information to develop new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, most recently in the area of immuno-oncology.
Dr. Bertozzi completed her undergraduate degree in Chemistry at Harvard University and her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, focusing on the chemical synthesis of oligosaccharide analogs. During postdoctoral work at UC San Francisco, she studied the activity of endothelial oligosaccharides in promoting cell adhesion at sites of inflammation. She joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1996. A Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 2000, she came to Stanford University in June 2015, among the first faculty to join the interdisciplinary institute ChEM-H (Chemistry, Engineering & Medicine for Human Health). She is now the Baker Family Director of Stanford ChEM-H.
Named a MacArthur Fellow in 1999, Dr. Bertozzi has received many awards for her dedication to chemistry, and to training a new generation of scientists fluent in both chemistry and biology. She has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and received the Lemelson-MIT Prize, the Heinrich Wieland Prize, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, and the Chemistry of the Future Solvay Prize, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, among others.
"The Biology of Sugars: Sweet Revenge on Human Disease"
Monday, February 24, 2025, at 8:00 p.m.
"The Journey of Bioorthogonal Chemistry: From Imaging Sugars to Making Medicines"
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.
"Cancer Immune Therapies Targeting Cell-Surface Sugars"
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 4:30 p.m.
"Targeted Protein Degradation in the Extracellular Space"
Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 4:30 p.m.
"Shining Light on Tuberculosis: A Global Disease Crisis"
The lecture series will be held at:
Seaver North Auditorium
645 N. College Avenue
Claremont, California
(The cross streets are College Avenue & 7th Street)
All lectures are free and open to the public.