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American biochemist and computational biologist (born 1962)

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1962 · age 63
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David Baker is an American biochemist and computational biologist who has pioneered methods to design proteins and predict their three-dimensional structures.

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2025Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2024Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2021Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
2004Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
2001Overton Prize
1994Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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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.

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Born 1962 · age 63
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