Falling Walls Falling Walls Science Summit 2023

Breaking the Wall by Transforming Human Health Interdisciplinarily

Carolyn Bertozzi

Science & Innovation Management

The nominating institution SLAC on the Science Breakthrough:

ChEM-H at Stanford brings together Chemistry, Engineering and Medicine to address long-range challenges in Human health. The institute focuses on molecules, allowing researchers to study human biology at a more fundamental level than cells, thereby paving the way for new tools to cure or prevent disease. Above all, ChEM-H educates a new type of student who will transform healthcare – someone with the eyes of a clinician, the wisdom of a scientist, and the problem-solving skills of an engineer.

Tags: Transforming Human Health, Bio-Tech, Covid-19, Diversity, Education, Engineering, Med-Tech, Science Communication, Biomedical research, chemistry, biology, medicine.

Carolyn Bertozzi

Stanford University

Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Baker Family Director of Stanford ChEM-H (Chemistry, Engineering, and Medicine for Human Health). Prof. Bertozzi is known for developing innovative technologies that have opened new avenues for biological discovery and therapeutic development. Several of her inventions have been translated to commercial settings. In 2022, Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.

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