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DMREF Researcher Receives Nobel Prize

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was recently awarded to DMREF researcher David Baker as well as Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work in protein design and prediction.

David Baker. Photo Credit: UW Medicine

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was recently awarded to DMREF researcher David Baker as well as Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work in protein design and prediction. Baker—based at the University of Washington and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute—has been supported for over a decade by DMREF through three awards beginning in 2013.

Read all about Baker’s research in an article, “Biochemist David Baker receives Nobel Prize” by UW’s Leila Gray.


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