Carolyn Bertozzi won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday and acknowledged those who helped her win the award. Bertozzi shares her win with two other scientists — K. Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal.

“It is an opportunity for me to recognise that all the work that so many trainees from my lab have done over the past 25 years and to reflect on how fortunate I have been and share in the celebration with them”, Bertozzi said after winning the award.

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Minutes after the big reveal, she also posed with her laptop that shows the graphic which was used to announce her as the winner. The photo was shared by the Nobel Prize Committee on social media platforms too.

Carolyn R. Bertozzi, who works at California’s Stanford University, was credited for her work on work on click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions that map DNA and create materials that are tailored to a specific purpose. Her work is used to make medications that treat cancer.

She found a way to make click chemistry work inside living organisms without disrupting them, establishing a new method known as bioorthogonal reactions, news agency Associated Press reported.

Such reactions are now used to explore cells, track biological processes and design drugs that can target diseases such as cancer more precisely.

“Doing chemistry inside human patients to make sure that drugs go to the right place and stay away from the wrong place,” Bertozzi explained.

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Speaking by phone at a news conference following the announcement, Bertozzi said she was “absolutely stunned” to receive the prize. “I am still not entirely positive that it is real, but it’s getting real-er by the minute,” she added.

The prizes carry a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (nearly $900,000) and will be handed out on December 10, as per tradition.