The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024
Awarded on: 2024-10-09
"for computational protein design"
Affiliations:
- University of Washington – Seattle, WA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute – USA
David Baker
Born: 1962-00-00 in Seattle, WA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biochemist and computational biologist (born 1962)
Biography
David Baker is an American biochemist and computational biologist who has pioneered methods to design proteins and predict their three-dimensional structures. He is the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry, an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and an adjunct professor of genome sciences, bioengineering, chemical engineering, computer science, and physics at the University of Washington. He was awarded the shared 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on computational protein design.