Hepsa Ely Silliman Lecture with Nobel Laureate Carolyn Bertozzi

Location: Marsh Hall, 360 Prospect St.
Time: To be determined

Speaker

Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022

Baker Family Director, Sarafan ChEM-H
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology
Department of Chemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Stanford University

A Special Lecture for All

The Silliman Lecture is open to the public and is presented in a way any educated layperson can understand. Furthermore, as Professor Bertozzi’s groundbreaking work is at the crossroads of chemical biology and medicine, people from various disciplines will find this lecture applicable and inspirational.

About

Professor Bertozzi won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 for the development of strain-promoted click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.

“Chemists strive to build increasingly complicated molecules. For a long time, this has been very time consuming and expensive. Click chemistry means that molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently. Around 2000, Carolyn Bertozzi started utilising click chemistry in living organisms. She developed bioorthogonal reactions which take place inside living organisms without disrupting the normal chemistry of the cell. These reactions are now used to explore cells, track biological processes, and improve the targeting of cancer pharmaceuticals."

  – Carolyn Bertozzi – Facts – 2022. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach 2026. Fri. 27 Mar 2026. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2022/bertozzi/facts/

Learn more about Professor Bertozzi.

Hosted by Professors Stavroula Hatzios and Stacy Malaker and the Department of Chemistry. Sponsored by the Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Fund.