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Companies founded by Nobel Prize winner Bertozzi

The eighth female to win the Nobel in chemistry has founded at least eight companies

October 6, 2022 12:12 AM UTC

Carolyn Bertozzi, the eighth female Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, has founded at least eight companies since 2000, spanning protein degraders, disease detection tests, checkpoint inhibitors and more.

The Stanford University professor was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday, which she shares with  University of Copenhagen professor Morten Meldal and Scripps Research professor K. Barry Sharpless, “for the development of click chemistry and bio-orthogonal chemistry.” ...