Professor David Baker Awarded Nobel Prize

Professor Baker reacting to the news.

David Baker, professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington School of Medicine and director of the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design, has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design. Read more here.

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