Carolyn Bertozzi

Biography

Carolyn Bertozzi is the Baker Family Director of Sarafan ChEM-H, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Radiology at Stanford University, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She completed her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Harvard University in 1988 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley in 1993. After completing postdoctoral work at UCSF in the field of cellular immunology, she joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1996. In June 2015, she joined the faculty at Stanford University and became the co-director and Institute Scholar at Sarafan ChEM-H.

Prof. Bertozzi's research interests span the disciplines of chemistry and biology with an emphasis on studies of cell surface glycosylation pertinent to disease states. Her lab focuses on profiling changes in cell surface glycosylation associated with cancer, inflammation and bacterial infection, and exploiting this information for development of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, most recently in the area of immuno-oncology.

Prof. Bertozzi has been recognized with many honors and awards for both her research and teaching accomplishments. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Some awards of note include the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Lemelson-MIT award for inventors, Whistler Award, Ernst Schering Prize, MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award, and Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award of the Protein Society. Her efforts in undergraduate education have earned her the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award and the Donald Sterling Noyce Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Honors and Awards

National Academy of Engineering (2024); ACS Priestly Award (2024); American Association for Cancer Research Award (2023); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2022); Welch Award in Chemistry (2022); The Dickson Prize in Medicine, University of Pittsburgh (2022); Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics (2022); Wolf Prize (2022); AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award (2022); President’s Innovator Award, Society for Glycobiology (2020); Nagoya Medal (2020); The Chemistry of the Future Solvay Prize (2020); NAS John J. Carty Award (2020); Glenn T. Seaborg Medal, UCLA (2020); F.A. Cotton Medal, Texas A&M University (2020); The Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest, Northeast Section of the ACS (2019); Max Tishler Prize, Harvard University Dept. of Chemistry (2018); Foreign Member of the Royal Society Inductee (2018); National Inventor’s Hall of Fame Inductee (2017); Arthur C. Cope Award (2017); UCSF 150th Anniversary Alumni Excellence Award (2015); Hans Bloemendal Award (Radboud Univ. Nijmegen) (2013); Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2013); Heinrich Wieland Prize (2012); Elected member of the Institute of Medicine (2011); Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award for Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry (2011); Royal Society of Chemistry - Organic Division, Bioorganic Chemistry Award (2010); Lemelson-MIT Prize (2010); Albert Hofmann Medal, Univ. Zurich (2009); Harrison Howe Award (2009); W. H. Nichols Award (2009); Willard Gibbs Medal (2008); Elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2008); Roy L. Whistler International Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry (2008); Li Ka Shing Women in Science Award (2008); Ernst Schering Prize (2007); Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (2005); T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professorship in Chemistry (2005); Havinga Medal, Univ. Leiden (2005); Iota Sigma Pi Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award (2004); Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003); Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award of the Protein Society (2002); Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002); Donald Sterling Noyce Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2001); UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award (2001); ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (2001); Merck Academic Development Program Award (2000); UC Berkeley Department of Chemistry Teaching Award (2000); Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) (2000); MacArthur Foundation Award (1999); Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1999); Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (ACS) (1999); Joel H. Hildebrand Chair in Chemistry (1998-2000); Beckman Young Investigator Award (1998); Prytanean Faculty Award (1998); Glaxo Wellcome Scholar (1998); Research Corporation Research Innovation Award (1998); Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (1998); Horace S. Isbell Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry (ACS) (1997); Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1997); Burroughs Wellcome New Investigator Award in Pharmacology (1997); Pew Scholars Award in the Biomedical Sciences (1996); Exxon Education Fund Young Investigator Award (1996); Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (1995); Bruce Mahan Teaching Award (1992); Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards (1989, 1990); Thomas T. Hoopes Undergraduate Thesis Prize (1988); New England American Institute of Chemists Award (1988); Danforth Teaching Award (1987); Phi Beta Kappa (1987)