Carolyn Bertozzi, the Baker Family Director of Sarafan ChEM-H at Stanford University and the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry, is the featured speaker at Pomona College chemistry department’s 61st Robbins Lecture Series, themed “The Biology of Sugars:  Sweet Revenge on Human Disease.”

Four free and open to the public talks will take place at Seaver North Auditorium, 645 N. College Ave., Claremont, beginning at 8 p.m. Monday, February 24 with “The Journey of Bioorthogonal Chemistry: From Imaging Sugars to Making Medicines.” “Cancer Immune Therapies Targeting Cell-Surface Sugars” follows at 11 a.m. Tuesday, February 25, followed by “Targeted Protein Degradation in the Extracellular Space” at 4:30 p.m. “Shining Light on Tuberculosis: A Global Disease Crisis” wraps the series at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 26.

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