Lemelson-MIT Prizewinner Leads Fight Against Disease

bertozzi_lgInternationally renowned chemical biologist Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi, whose research is applied worldwide in the biopharmaceutical industry,won the prestigious 2010 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize.

As a pioneer in the field of biotechnology – not to mention a role model in a field dominated by men – she currently is working on ways to manipulate processes within living cells to engineer their surfaces and secreted proteins.

She will accept Lemelson-MIT prize and present her accomplishments to the public at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the Lemelson-MIT Program’s fourth-annual EurekaFest, a multi-day celebration of the inventive spirit, June 16 – 19.

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Bertozzi’s ability to identify unmet needs and craft innovative solutions has led to scientific advances with a broad range of applications. Chemical insights gleaned by Bertozzi have progressed efforts to diagnose and treat diseases such as cancer, inflammatory disorders such as arthritis, and infectious diseases like tuberculosis. Her multi-disciplinary approach has led to significant developments in the ability to engineer living cells and the proteins they produce with defined chemical properties.

As a University of California, Berkeley Professor and Director of the Molecular Foundry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,She also is hailed as an insightful mentor and entrepreneur.

Seeking Nominees for 2011 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize

Applications for the 2011 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize are now available at http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-prize.html. The annual prize honors an outstanding mid-career inventor who is dedicated to improving our world through technological invention and innovation.