2009 Harrison Howe Award Lecture and Reception
Class of '62 Auditorium, URMC
The Rochester Section of the American Chemical Society is proud to announce the presentation of the 2009 Harrison Howe Award to Professor Carolyn R. Bertozzi, the most recent recipient of the Award, which took place at the University of Rochester on October 1, 2009.
The award was presented at a public lecture entitled “Research at the Intersection of Nanoscience and Biology - Highlights from the Molecular Foundry” at the University of Rochester Medical School on Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 7:30 pm in the Class of ’62 Auditorium. A reception and poster session on chemical biology followed in the Sarah Flaum Atrium. Professor Bertozzi also presented a technical lecture earlier that day to local students, faculty and chemists entitled “Imaging the Glycome with Bioorthogonal Chemistry” at 2:00 pm in the Class of ’62 Auditorium at University of Rochester.
Students, faculty and members of the Rochester chemistry and chemical biology community are invited to attend the lectures and award presentation. Those wishing to present a poster at the evening poster session should register by September 23rd at the latest.
Carolyn Bertozzi, the T. Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley is recognized as one of the leading scientists of her generation. Her research interests lie at the intersection of chemistry and biology, with a particular focus on understanding the relationship of cell surface glycosylation to normal cell function, and to human disease. Prof. Bertozzi has designed elegant experiments that have made historic contributions to the way in which researchers can profile changes in cell surface glycosylation associated with cancer, inflammation, and bacterial infection. She is most noted for her work in pioneering the field of bioorthogonal chemistry on living systems. For more information, please see the Harrison Howe website.
The Harrison Howe Award is dedicated to the memory of Harrison E. Howe, 1881—1942, a cofounder of the ACS Rochester Section and a well-known chemist, editor, and author. The award was established to recognize a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to chemistry or closely related fields and who shows great potential for further achievement. Recent winners of the award include Charles Lieber (2002), Jack Szostak (2003), Michael Marletta (2004), Laura Kiessling (2005), and Daniel Nocera (2008).
For more information about the 2009 Harrison Howe Award lectures and event please contact Patrick Holland, Chair of the Harrison Howe Award Committee and Associate Professor of Chemistry or Debra Haring, Development Administrator, at the University of Rochester.
The support of the Rochester Section of the ACS, the University of Rochester Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Medical Center is gratefully acknowledged.
