The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction," the X account for Nobel Prize said, APA reports.
This year’s Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry cracked the code for proteins’ amazing structures.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools. Chemistry laureate David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. His co-laureates Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. These discoveries hold enormous potential.
2024 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. In recent years, one incredible protein creation after the other has emerged from Baker’s laboratory. They range from new nanomaterials where up to 120 proteins spontaneously link together to proteins that function as a type of molecular rotor.