The 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry recognizes work on a revolutionary branch of the science that produced 'an ingenious tool for building molecules'
Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless have won the Nobel Prize for chemistry, for work that has produced “an ingenious tool for building molecules.” The trio won the award for founding and advancing the fields of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry, which has “led to a revolution in how chemists think about linking molecules together,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
She told reporters at the winners’ press conference over the phone that her advancements are being used “to discover new kinds of molecules we didn’t know existed,” and means scientists are “doing chemistry inside human patients to make the drugs go to the right place.” Bertozzi, who teaches at Stanford University in California, said she was told of her win in the middle of the night on the American west coast. “I can hardly breathe,” she said of her reaction.
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