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Adjunct Professor of of Computer Science. Investigator, HHMI. BA 1984, Harvard University. PhD 1989, UC Berkeley. Off.: 422 MoIE. Ph.: 206.616.7542. Fax: 206.685.1792. dabaker@u.washington.edu. ipdadmin@uw.edu (assistant) Lab Website. Institute for Protein Design. Honors. 1994 National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award.
May 2, 2024 · For his research, Baker, now director of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington, was awarded the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Feb 21, 2023 · David Baker’s laboratory at the University of Washington has gone one step further, developing several open artificial intelligence systems that create proteins that have never existed in nature.
David Baker designs new biomolecules (proteins) from first principles to address 21st-century challenges in health and technology.
David Baker. University of Washington. Verified email at uw.edu - Homepage. Protein Design. Articles 1–20. University of Washington - Cited by 168,761 - Protein Design.
In this remarkable glimpse of the future, David Baker shares how his team at the Institute for Protein Design is creating entirely new proteins from scratch -- and shows how they could help us tackle five massive challenges facing humanity.
