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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That’s a wrap on #CRB60! Thank you to all the researchers who showed, from glycoRNA to bioluminescence to tuberculosis, just how far Carolyn Bertozzi’s legacy has traveled. @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Today we're live from #CRB60, a symposium honoring our director Carolyn Bertozzi's legacy and impact on chemical biology. Speakers include Bertozzi lab alumni now leading their own research. @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Rebecca Pinals on winning the 2026 AIChE's 35 Under 35 Award! publications.aiche.org/cep/2026/oct...

Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Rebecca Pinals on winning AIChE’s 35 Under 35 Award, in recognition of her early-career excellence and achievements.

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our director @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social won the 2022 Nobel Prize for developing bioorthogonal chemistry - tagging and tracking sugars in living organisms without disturbing the system, opening new ways to study & treat cancer, infection, and disease: explorers.com/carolyn-bert...

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Carolyn Bertozzi: Revolutionizing Chemistry with Playful Curiosity

Explore Carolyn Bertozzi's groundbreaking work in glycobiology and bioorthogonal chemistry, blending science and creativity in innovative ways.

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“It’s hard for me to think of a field it wouldn’t transform.” Institute Scholar Polly Fordyce @pollyfordyce.bsky.social is working to build the world's largest dataset on how proteins actually function, to help AI design new antibodies, enzymes, and medicines. openminds.stanford.edu/support/stor...

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The protein observatory

Polly Fordyce is building a global engine for protein discovery—one that could help researchers harness AI to create new medicines, materials, and climate solutions.

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Join us for the CRB60 Symposium, celebrating our director Carolyn Bertozzi's legacy and impact on chemical biology, with talks from her lab alumni! Oct 9, 2026, Paul Berg Auditorium, Stanford. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/crb60-symp... @berkeleychemistry.bsky.social

Nicholas Agard • Genentech
Steven Banik • Stanford
Michael Boyce • Duke
Xing Chen • Peking University
Penelope Drake • 16 Waves
Danielle Dube • Bowdoin
Ryan Flynn • Harvard
Zev Gartner • UCSF
Howard Hang • Scripps
Matt Hangauer • UC San Diego
Ramesh Jasti • Oregon
Jennifer Kohler • UTSW
Jessica Kramer • Utah
Lara Mahal • Alberta
Stacy Malaker • Yale
Lisa Marcaurelle • GSK
Matthew Pratt • USC
Jennifer Prescher • UCI
Benjamin Schumann • TU Dresden
Sloan Siegrist • UMass Amherst
Ellen Sletten • Dartmouth
David Vocadlo • Simon Fraser
Christina Woo • Harvard
Peng Wu • Scripps

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hear our director Carolyn Bertozzi in @stanfordbrain.bsky.social's podcast on the sugar molecules coating our cells - work so complex she created a new field, bioorthogonal chemistry, to study them - now fueling drug development for cancer & other diseases neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/sugar-b...

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Sugar on the Brain

We talk with Carolyn Bertozzi about her Nobel Prize-winning work in chemistry – and the impact it could

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Department of Chemistry, Stanford University @stanfordchemistry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🎙️ Listen to Prof. @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social on the "From Our Neurons to Yours" podcast, where she discusses glycans—sugar molecules that play key roles in cell communication, immunity, and disease—and her pioneering work in bioorthogonal chemistry. bit.ly/46AfdQ6

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Sugar on the Brain | Carolyn Bertozzi

Podcast Episode · From Our Neurons to Yours · September 11 · 52m · Video

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sarafan ChEM-H CBI trainee @isaacapaddy.bsky.social in the lab of @lmkdassama.bsky.social and in collaboration with Christine Jacobs-Wagner explores the metabolic vulnerabilities of the pathogen that causes Lyme disease in the hope of finding new treatments: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pro.70766

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We're hiring! The Microbiome Therapies Initiative (MITI) at Sarafan ChEM-H is seeking a highly motivated protein scientist for a role in our ambitious new effort to develop and produce commensal vaccines in-house at Stanford for clinical use. Learn more: chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...

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Careers

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Institute scholar Nicole M. Martinez & team have developed a method to examine how special enzymes called pseudouridine synthases chemically alter RNA molecules within cells, giving clues to how these enzymes may be regulated and dysregulated in disease: chemh.stanford.edu/news/writing...

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Writing the playbook for RNA-modifying enzymes and their roles in regulating translation of the genetic code

Institute scholar Nicole M. Martinez and team have developed a quantitative method to examine how special enzymes called pseudouridine synthases chemically alter RNA molecules within our cells

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

With Gates Foundation funding, a collaboration between @stanford.edu, Belmont University & BioStruct-Africa will train African scientists in cryo-EM, an advanced technique to study HIV and other infectious diseases & design new therapeutics chemh.stanford.edu/news/multi-i... @cobarnes27.bsky.social

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Multi-institutional collaboration brings advanced microscopy training to scientists in Africa

The program, funded by the Gates Foundation, will include both remote and immersive in-person training on cryogenic electron microscopy to study HIV and other infectious diseases

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Institute Scholar @stevenbanik.bsky.social, Melissa Gray & team built a new high-throughput tool to detect tiny changes in cellular protein levels, which could hopefully accelerate discovery of degrader drugs that fight diseases like cancer: news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...

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New screening tool amplifies detection of protein changes

A high-throughput method enables researchers to screen hundreds of drugs in parallel, accelerating discovery of therapies that degrade disease-causing proteins.

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Laura M. K. Dassama @lmkdassama.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Truly honored. Thank you, @asbmb.bsky.social for this recognition of my group's early work.

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Laura Dassama on being awarded the 2027 ASBMB @asbmb.bsky.social Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research, recognizing her outstanding research contributions in the area of lipids: www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...

Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Laura Dassama on being awarded the 2027 ASBMB
Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research.

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Department of Chemistry, Stanford University @stanfordchemistry.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

📢 We’re hiring! The Stanford Chemistry Department is now actively conducting faculty searches (open area) - term to start on 9/1/2027: - Assistant Professor in Chemistry - Senior Faculty Position in Chemistry (Associate Professor or Professor)

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HIRING: CHEMISTRY FACULTY SEARCH (OPEN AREA) | Chemistry

The Department of Chemistry at Stanford University is actively conducting faculty searches for:- Assistant Professor in Chemistry- Senior Faculty Position in Chemistry (Associate Professor or Professo...

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Department of Chemistry, Stanford University @stanfordchemistry.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Banik Lab has developed a high-throughput tool to screen hundreds of drugs in parallel, accelerating the discovery of therapies that degrade disease-causing proteins: news.stanford.edu/stories/2026... #StanfordChem #BanikLab

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New screening tool amplifies detection of protein changes

A high-throughput method enables researchers to screen hundreds of drugs in parallel, accelerating discovery of therapies that degrade disease-causing proteins.

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Steven Banik @stevenbanik.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This work was enabled by the amazing community @stanford-chemh.bsky.social @stanfordchemistry.bsky.social @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social, and by collaborators @corsello.bsky.social and Nathanael Gray!

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Steven Banik @stevenbanik.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Excited our ratiometric transcriptional activation (RTA) work led by postdoc Dr. Melissa Gray is out online today in Cell @cp-cell.bsky.social! Measurements determine what we can discover in biology; we use RTA to turn protein abundance changes into amplified signals in live cells.

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Ratiometric transcriptional activation by protein degradation

By tethering a protein of interest to anti-CRISPR, protein degradation is transformed into amplified and programmable transcriptional outputs via Cas-based transcription factors, with sensitivity to p...

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Laura M. K. Dassama @lmkdassama.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A fantastic story that potentially explains why statins are poor antibiotics, only came together because of a phenomenal graduate student @stanford-chemh.bsky.social , fantastic co-authors in the group, and wonderful collaborators in the @jacobswagnerlab.bsky.social lab and Stanford IMA!

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Heloise Hoffmann '26 isn’t afraid to fail. Former Sarafan ChEM-H Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program (UEP) trainee plans to continue researching a cure for a rare form of muscular dystrophy: news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...

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Meet Heloise Hoffmann, ’26

The bioengineering student and singer-songwriter graduates this month with plans to continue researching a cure for a rare form of muscular dystrophy.

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

cGAMP helps immune cells fight tumors, but in the brain it may worsen neuroinflammation. In this Q&A,CBI trainee Dayanne Carvalho, @lingyinli.bsky.social's lab, talks about her research on cGAMP in neurodegenerative diseases like MS, her journey as a chemist & more chemh.stanford.edu/news/qa-cbi-...

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Q&A with CBI fellow Dayanne Carvalho

Dayanne Carvalho is a Chemistry PhD student at Stanford and part of the Chemistry/Biology Interface (CBI) Training Program at Sarafan ChEM-H

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Could pythons hold a clue to weight loss? Institute Scholar Jonathan Long explains how the dramatic metabolic changes pythons undergo after eating could reveal new pathways for understanding appetite and metabolism: youtu.be/ZOSYxe1ssnA?...

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Could pythons hold a clue to weight loss?| 90 Seconds w/ Lisa Kim

What can pythons’ unusual feast-and-famine lifestyle teach us about weight loss? Stanford Medicine researcher Jonathan Long, PhD, explains how studying the dramatic metabolic changes pythons…

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The brain's immune system was thought to exist independently.But @juliabelk.bsky.social, former CBI trainee,& team found that aging lets immune cells move into the brain from the blood, opening new ways to treating neurological disease such as Alzheimer's brainresilience.stanford.edu/news/aging-b...

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Aging brains welcome reinforcements from outside immune cells

The discovery from an unusual team of computer scientists and pathologists overturns longstanding dogma –

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

. @corsello.bsky.social, Institute Scholar Nathanael Gray, Stephen Hinshaw & team solved the structure of a molecular glue in complex with its two protein partners, a discovery they hope will lead to more effective drugs to treat pancreatic cancer: chemh.stanford.edu/news/molecul...

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A molecular pearl in an oyster: uncovering the structural basis for potential new cancer drugs

Researchers provide a high-resolution view of new molecular glues that target and kill pancreatic cancer cells

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Looking for a summer read? Here's the Sarafan ChEM-H community's list of favorites from last year! It includes memoirs to science fiction, with a note on why each one stuck with them. chemh.stanford.edu/news/sarafan...

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Sarafan ChEM-H 2025 Summer Reading List

Here's a curated list of top summer reads contributed by the Sarafan ChEM-H community.

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A decade of the CBI Program, promising advances in cancer and IPF therapies, insights into neurodegeneration, the latest news from across our community, and more in this new edition of The ChEM-H Quarterly: mailchi.mp/stanford/the...

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Institute Scholar Nathanael Gray’s lab is developing next-generation therapies to outsmart drug-resistant lung cancer by targeting EGFR, a protein that, when mutated, can drive the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells:

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Next-generation therapies to outsmart drug-resistant lung cancer

The Gray Lab is developing next-gen therapies, including protein degraders and "dual-grip" inhibitors, to overcome drug resistance in lung cancer.

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Julia Belk @juliabelk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Gaining therapeutic access to the human brain is one of the biggest unsolved problems in biomedical science. Today @nature.com, we uncover a massive influx of immune cells into the human brain during aging, revealing that the brain is more accessible than previously thought. 1/

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Somatic mutations reveal the ontogeny of microglia in human aging - Nature

Nature - Somatic mutations reveal the ontogeny of microglia in human aging

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Institute Scholar Nathanael Gray, Nucleus Director of Crystallography Daniel Fernandez & team used a small molecule to redirect cancer protein BCL6 to trigger cell self-destruction in malignant cells, which could potentially lead to more precise treatments www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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ONO PHARMA FOUNDATION @onoinitiative.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Heartfelt thanks and deep respect to the outstanding @stanford-chemh.bsky.social team for the devoted efforts in planning and organizing this symposium, with dedication and collaboration that made it far exceed all expectations!

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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Congratulations @kangyongloh.bsky.social, Spencer Zhao, @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social, and the whole team– including my longtime and wonderful collaborator Zhenan Bao– for this key step in our journey toward genetically-targeted chemical assembly in biology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Faculty fellow @sattelylab.bsky.social sees plants as the world's ultimate "chemical factories". Her lab cracked the code to potentially make cancer drug Taxol cheaper and is tackling global challenges such as food allergies, malnutrition, sustainable farming& more

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Elizabeth Sattely reveals the hidden talents of plants

The Stanford researcher views plants as nature’s ultimate chemists. Her work has the potential to innovate everything from food allergies to cancer treatment.

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ONO PHARMA FOUNDATION @onoinitiative.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

ONO Pharma Foundation and Stanford ChEM-H held a successful symposium, supporting #ChemicalBiology research and accelerating innovation. With 168 participants, amazing speakers, engaging presentations, lively poster sessions, and empowering discussions for students—thank you all!

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

New @stanfordbrain.bsky.social podcast episode features Institute Scholar @abu-remaileh.bsky.social discussing his work on cellular recycling centers called lysosomes to understand their role in junk proteins that accumulate in neurodegenerative diseases neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/neurode...

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Is neurodegeneration a waste-management problem?

Monther Abu-Remaileh takes us inside the lysosome, a cellular recycling center that could change how we

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A big thank you to all our incredible speakers and attendees, including faculty, students, postdocs, and colleagues from industry, for helping make the @onoinitiative.bsky.social Annual Symposium a success! We look forward to the insights and collaborations that will emerge from these discussions.

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 25/06/2026

Bringing it home is Laura Kiessling @mitchemistry.bsky.social teaching us about lectins as readers of cell surface #glycotime @onoinitiative.bsky.social chem bio symposium @stanford-chemh.bsky.social

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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Thrilled to welcome renowned chemical biologist @laurakiessling.bsky.social @mitchemistry.bsky.social for a keynote presentation on ‘Tools for Exploring Glycan Recognition in Health and Disease’! @onoinitiative.bsky.social

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 25/06/2026

Angad Mehta at UIUC shares exciting new work in synthetic biology leveraging evolution @onoinitiative.bsky.social chem bio symposium @stanford-chemh.bsky.social

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