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Transcript : (128 leaves) ; 29 cm. |
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Chemical Heritage Foundation Oral history transcript ; 0529.
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This oral history is part of a series supported by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts based on the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. This collection is an important resource for the history of biomedicine, recording the life and careers of young, distinguished biomedical scientists and of Pew Biomedical Scholar Advisory Committee members. |
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Interview conducted by Andrea R. Maestrejuan at University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California. |
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From the original collection at the Center for Oral History Research, UCLA Library, UCLA. The following oral history, originally processed at the UCLA Center for Oral History Research, has been reformatted by the Chemical Heritage Foundation. The text of the oral history remains unaltered; any inadvertent spelling or factual errors in the original manuscript have not been modified. The reformatted version and digital copies of the interview recordings are housed at the Othmer Library, Chemical Heritage Foundation. The original version and research materials remain at the Darling Library, University of California, Los Angeles and at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. |
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Carolyn R. Bertozzi interview conducted by Andrea R. Maestrejuan at University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California. (Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, Oral History Transcript 0529). |
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Sound files Science History Institute. |
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Transcript Science History Institute. |
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original transcript and research files Science History Institute. |
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No restrictions on access. Reproduction and use with permission. Chemical Heritage Foundation. |
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Born in Boston, Massachusetts on 10 October 1966. Education: A.B., Chemistry, Harvard University (1988) ; Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley (1993). Employment: 2000- University of California, San Francisco ; 1996- University of California, Berkeley ; 1996- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. |
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Carolyn Bertozzi grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, the second of three girls. Her father was a nuclear physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her mother a secretary in MITs physics department. Carolyn was recruited to Harvard. She began as a biology major but in her second year took an organic chemistry class, which she loved, although she continued to take biology classes, she switched her major to chemistry. She was first in her class and eventually graduated summa cum laude, but Harvards chemistry department was exclusively male at the time. As a result, she went to a lab in the biochemistry department, where Joseph Grabowski, her teacher for a physical organic chemistry class, asked her to work for him during the summer. He convinced her to go to graduate school at University of California at Berkeley. At Berkeley, she joined Mark Bednarskis bioorganic chemistry laboratory to study carbohydrates. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on the synthesis of carbohydrate analogues for biological applications. Carolyn went to work in Steven Rosens cell biology laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco, for her postdoc. There she studied the role of carbohydrates in inflammation and leukocyte adhesion. After her postdoctoral work, she accepted an assistant professorship at the University of California at Berkeley and set up her own laboratory. She and Rosen also founded a private company, Thios Pharmaceuticals, Inc |
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Part or all of this item has been digitized by Science History Institute. |
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Bertozzi, Carolyn R., 1966- interviewee.
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University of California, Berkeley -- Faculty.
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Women molecular biologists -- Biography.
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Women molecular biologists -- Interviews.
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Women in science -- Biography.
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Women in science -- Interviews.
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Women in medicine -- Biography.
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Women in medicine -- Interviews.
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Medical scientists -- Biography.
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Medical scientists -- Interviews.
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Medicine -- Research.
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Molecular biology -- Research.
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Oral histories. lcgft
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Interviews. aat
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Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences -- History.
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Maestrejuan, Andrea R., interviewer.
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Chemical Heritage Foundation.
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Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences.
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Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Carolyn R. Bertozzi oral history interview |
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