Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D. Co-Chair

Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi is a pioneer in emerging technologies who has cofounded 14 biopharmaceutical companies and guided more than a dozen academic and professional organizations and life sciences companies through her leadership and board positions. Her research interests span the disciplines of chemistry and biology with an emphasis on studies of cell surface sugars important to human health and disease.

Dr. Bertozzi is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology and Radiology, the Baker Family Director of the Sarafan ChEM-H Institute at Stanford University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. She was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.

An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Bertozzi has been awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize, Heinrich Wieland Prize, ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, Chemistry of the Future Solvay Prize, Wolf Prize in Chemistry, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, among other awards and honors during her distinguished career.