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Institute for Protein Design @UWproteindesign

We create proteins that solve challenges in medicine, technology & sustainability 🟡 2024 Nobel in Chemistry 📍@UWMedicine — ipd.uw.edu/join-us/

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The Nobel Prize
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5 Dec 2024
This year's chemistry laureate David Baker has arrived in Stockholm today prepared for our cold weather ❄️
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences @ScienceAcad_swe
5 Dec 2024
Today, several #NobelPrize Laureates arrive in Stockholm, warmly welcomed by Hans Ellegren. Here we see David Baker stepping off the plane at Arlanda. This week is packed with inspiration, press conferences and lectures, so stay tuned! 🌟 @UW @HHMINEWS #Science
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Hej from Stockholm! 🇸🇪 David Baker has invited >30 current trainees, >100 scientific peers, and members of his family to join him as he receives the #NobelPrize in #Chemistry. Want to join in? You may stream or later watch several Nobel Week events: nobelprize.org/ceremony/prog…
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UW Medicine Newsroom
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6 Dec 2024
YouTube link @NobelPrize for the upcoming 2024 Nobel Prize Lectures in Chemistry Sunday Dec. 8, featuring David Baker @UWBiochemistry @UWproteindesign @uwsomwwami and @demishassabis & John Jumper @GoogleDeepMind youtube.com/watch?v=HnT1VWzd…
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Michael C. Jewett @MichaelCJewett
17 Nov 2024
Interested in enzyme design? Check out this paper from Don Hilvert and David Baker @UWproteindesign #syntheticbiology biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Computational Design of Metallohydrolases

New enzymes can be designed by starting from a description of an ideal active site composed of catalytic residues surrounding the reaction transition state(s) and identifying or generating a protein...

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Mohamad Abedi @Mohamad_Abedi
14 Nov 2024
Cute story alert!🧵@Caltech two clueless office mates (@piraner & I) created a tool to control cells with ultrasound. As postdocs (@UCSF & @UWproteindesign), we teamed up again (with @majo__duran & @AdamChazin) to build a tool for engineered cell signaling nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Engineered receptors for soluble cellular communication and disease sensing

Nature - A synthetic receptor platform that enables mammalian cells to respond to soluble factors allows specific signalling networks to be precisely controlled, with a variety of therapeutic...

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đź”´ LIVE in 25 minutes: Computational Protein Design Then & Now (1988-2024) A free one-hour webinar featuring: David Baker (UW) Steve Mayo (Caltech) Bill DeGrado (UCSF) Brian Kuhlman (UNC) youtube.com/live/BuJGTn7OhxQ

Computational Protein Design Then & Now (1988-2024)

Discover the strategies that created the field and shape its progre...

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Watch the full event: youtube.com/live/BuJGTn7OhxQ

Computational Protein Design Then & Now (1988-2024)

Discover the strategies that created the field and shape its progre...

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Curious about life in a Nobel laureate's lab? 📆 The Baker Lab Podcast is sharing stories each month. ✅ Subscribe to catch future episodes.
The Baker Lab Podcast @BakerLabPodcast
30 Oct 2024
NEW EPISODE 🎧 Susana Vazquez Torres crossed continents to become a scientist. In our lab, she's used AI to create new antitoxins for snakebites. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/580…
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Growing AI capabilities in the life sciences can enable resilient and equitable responses to future biological threats. New #NAMPerspectives paper by Lynda Stuart, @erichorvitz, @RickABright: doi.org/10.31478/202410d
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Coefficient Giving
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23 Oct 2024
AI and computational protein design are transforming how vaccines are developed. We're proud to have backed longtime grantees Neil King and recent Nobel laureate David Baker in creating more effective vaccines through early, catalytic funding: openphilanthropy.org/researc…
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Did you know David Baker just launched a podcast? The first episode features trainee @Mohamad_Abedi. Born a Palestinian refugee, Mohamad never dreamed he’d grow up to become the scientist he is today. Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/32pWWp…

The Baker Lab Podcast

Science Podcast · Updated Monthly · Your front-row seat to the human side of science. Hosted by Nobel laureate David Baker, we invite you to hear from real people at the forefront of AI, biology,...

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Watch Nobel Laureate David Baker explain his life's work in under 9 minutes. → What is protein design? → What will it lead to? → What's next for David? @UW @UWMedicine @HHMINEWS @NobelPrize #proteindesign youtube.com/watch?v=g96tXNwr…
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Full UW Medicine press conference (Oct 9, 2024; 26 minutes) youtube.com/watch?v=jhTgd5MC…
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As researchers, innovators, and communities worldwide celebrate this remarkable achievement, we look forward to the groundbreaking discoveries and life-changing solutions that still lie ahead—solutions made possible by the visionary work that has earned David Baker a Nobel Prize.
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Proteins are life’s most important molecules. And in the words of the Nobel committee, Baker “has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins.”  ipd.uw.edu/2024/10/david-bak…

David Baker wins Nobel Prize for protein design – Institute for Protein Design

“Baker has learned how to master life’s building blocks and create entirely new proteins.”

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The Nobel Prize
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9 Oct 2024
“I love all the proteins so I don’t want to pick favourites." New chemistry laureate, David Baker, spoke about the technology he developed that creates protein structures at the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry press conference today. Watch in full: bit.ly/4eBoGJp
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HHMI
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9 Oct 2024
We recently spent a day in the lab with 2024 @NobelPrize winner and HHMI Investigator David Baker, where he discussed his groundbreaking work, the importance of basic science, and his passion for mentorship #NobelPrize
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HHMI
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9 Oct 2024
Congratulations to HHMI Investigator David Baker who has won the 2024 @NobelPrize in Chemistry for his work on computational protein design! He shares the prize with Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for protein structure prediction. #NobelPrize hhmi.org/hhmi-david-baker-wi…
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