Carolyn Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless shared the Nobel Prize.

Two RCSA-supported scientists were awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless share the award “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.” Bertozzi received an RCSA Research in Innovation Award in 1997 to develop new strategies for anti-tumor therapy and diagnosis. Sharpless, who is being awarded his second Nobel Prize in Chemistry, received an RCSA grant in 1971 to study the chemistry of cis-dioxotransition metal species and its relevance to the action of mixed function oxygenases.