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Among Nobel Prize winners honored in Stockholm this year were a number with ties to MIT — including 2022 winners, but also winners from 2020 and 2021, who were not able to experience the traditional Nobel celebration due to Covid-19 precautions.

The goal is 'doing chemistry inside human patients to make sure that drugs go to the right place and stay away from the wrong place,' says one of the Americans who shared the prize.

Carolyn Bertozzi, a Harvard University graduate, said one of the first people she called with the news was her father, a retired MIT physics professor.

STOCKHOLM--Three scientists were jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing a way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to explore cells, map DNA and design drugs that can target diseases such as cancer more precisely.

David Keyton, Frank Jordans & Christina Larson STOCKHOLM (AP) – Three scientists were jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing a way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to explore cells, map DNA and design drugs that can target diseases such as cancer more precisely. Americans Carolyn R […]

Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless, and Morten Meldal were cited for their work on click chemistry that works "sort of like molecular Lego."

Stanford chemistry professor Carolyn Bertozzi got a pre-dawn wake-up call Wednesday that has changed her life forever.

Stanford chemist Carolyn Bertozzi was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for her development of bioorthogonal reactions, which allow scientists to explore cells and track biological processes without disrupting the normal chemistry of the cell.

Their work is seen enabling more precise targeting of cancer and other diseases; Bertzozzi is only 8th woman of 189 chemistry laureates; she and Sharpless also Wolf Prize winners

The goal is 'doing chemistry inside human patients to make sure that drugs go to the right place and stay away from the wrong place,' says one of the Americans who shared the prize.