David Baker

Director of Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington; 2024 Nobel Prize winner

<cite index="47-2">David Baker is an American biochemist and computational biologist who has pioneered methods to design proteins and predict their three-dimensional structures.</cite> <cite index="47-4">He was awarded the shared 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on computational protein design.</cite> <cite index="45-5">Baker, a University of Washington professor of biochemistry and head of the Institute for Protein Design, shared the prize with Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper of Google DeepMind.</cite>