2022 Nobel chemistry prize awarded to trio

(5 Oct 2022)
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Stockholm – 5 October 2022
1. Various of members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences arriving to news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hans Ellegren, Secretary General, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences:
"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has this morning decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in equal shares to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Stanford University, California, USA, Morten Meldal, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and to Barry Sharpless, Scripps Research, La Jolla, California, USA. They received the prize for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry."
3. Zoom out of speaker with screen of diagram on click chemistry
STORYLINE:
This year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded in equal parts to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for developing way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to design medicines.
Their work, known as click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions, is used to make cancer drugs, map DNA and create materials that are tailored to a specific purpose.
Hans Ellegren, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announced the winners Wednesday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
Bertozzi is based at Stanford University in California, Meldal is at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Sharpless is affiliated with Scripps Research, California.
Sharpless previously won a Nobel Prize in 2001.
He is the fifth person to receive the award twice.
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