MolES professor David Baker receives Nobel Prize

Computational biologist David Baker, professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington School of Medicine, director of the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design, and member of the Molecular Engineering and Science Institute, has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design.

He shares the Nobel Prize with Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper of DeepMind, who were honored for protein structure prediction.

The award, announced today, Oct. 9, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, will be presented in a ceremony Dec. 10. Read more about the work that led to this honor.