Congratulations to David Baker for winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and, in the words of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, achieving the “almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins.”
Engineering proteins with novel shapes and functions unlocks nearly endless possibilities to create more effective medicines, diagnostics, and sensors. At Ten Bridge, we’re thrilled to be working alongside a biotech co-founded by David, to help translate his science and create the next generation of computationally designed drugs.
Proteins generally consist of 20 different amino acids, which can be described as life’s building blocks. In 2003, David Baker succeeded in using these blocks to design a new protein that was unlike any other protein. Since then, his research group has produced one imaginative protein creation after another, including proteins that can be used as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, nanomaterials and tiny sensors.
Earlier this week it was announced that Baker was awarded the 2024 chemistry prize for his work on computational protein design.
Discover more about this year's chemistry prize:
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