Carolyn Bertozzi focused on bioorthogonal chemistry in 1996 and won the Nobel Prize in 2022

This is how her discovery got to cancer clinical trials

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In 1996, Carolyn Bertozzi and her lab at UC Berkeley were working to develop a way to image cell-surface glycans: sugar-based macromolecules that coat the surface of cells. 

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