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David Baker
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American biochemist and computational biologist (born 1962)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1962-10-06 ) October 6, 1962 (age 63) , Seattle , Washington , U.S.
- Education
- Harvard University ( BA ) University of California, Berkeley ( PhD )
- Known for
- Protein design Protein structure prediction Rosetta@Home Fold.it
- Spouse
- Hannele Ruohola
- Awards
- Beckman Young Investigators Award Overton Prize Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology TED 's Audacious Prize Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2021), Wiley Prize (2022), BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)
- Fields
- Computational biology
- Institutions
- University of Washington Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Thesis
- Reconstitution of Intercompartmental Protein Transport in Yeast Extracts (1989)
- Doctoral advisor
- Randy Schekman
- Other academic advisors
- David Agard
- Doctoral students
- Richard Bonneau
- Other notable students
- Post-docs: Brian Kuhlman Tanja Kortemme Jens Meiler
- Website
- www .bakerlab .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2024
“for computational protein design”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Family name
- Baker
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Seattle
- Educated at
- University of California, San Francisco
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Randy Schekman
- Field of work
- protein design
- Official website
- www.bakerlab.org
- Image
- David Baker, 2024 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 4 (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1962-10-06
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- David Baker (biochemist)
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- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
David Baker (born October 6, 1962) 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.
Baker is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and of the United States National Academy of Engineering, and is the director of the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design. He has co-founded more than a dozen biotechnology companies and was included in Time magazine's inaugural list of the 100 Most Influential People in health in 2024.
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