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Professor Bertozzi is the T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a Senior Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (“LBNL”).

She previously served as the Director of the Molecular Foundry, a nanoscience institute at LBNL. Professor Bertozzi’s research interests span the disciplines of chemistry and biology with an emphasis on studying changes in cell surface glycosylation associated with cancer, inflammation and bacterial infection.

She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Her many awards include the Lemelson-MIT award for inventors, the Whistler Award, the Ernst Schering Prize, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry and the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award.

Professor Bertozzi received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Harvard University, her Ph.D. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley and her postdoctoral work was completed at UC San Francisco (“UCSF”) in the field of cellular immunology.