Work on protein structure and design wins the 2024 chemistry Nobel
David Baker figured out how to build entirely new proteins. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper developed an AI tool to predict protein structures.
Proteins drive an attractive deal of the chemistry underlying all life on Earth
David Baker (left) figured out a strategy to build new proteins. Demis Hassabis (middle) and John Jumper (right) developed an AI tool to predict protein structures.
Niklas Elmehed, © Nobel Prize Outreach
The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to David Baker “for computational protein design” and to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
Proteins are one amongst the foundational molecules of life. Baker, of the University of Washington in Seattle, “succeeded with the just about impossible feat of building entirely new styles of proteins,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm said this morning in a press liberate. Hassabis and Jumper, both at Google DeepMind, “developed an AI model to resolve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures.”
The trio will split the prize of Eleven million Swedish kroner, or about $1 million.
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