HHMI Investigator David Baker Awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Computational protein design and protein structure prediction have earned three scientists the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. David Baker, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper of Google DeepMind were announced as this year’s recipients by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today.