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We create proteins that solve challenges in medicine, technology & sustainability 🟡 2024 Nobel in Chemistry 📍@UWMedicine —

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This year's chemistry laureate David Baker has arrived in Stockholm today prepared for our cold weather ❄️

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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
https://t.co/wtgnjFu8M2

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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: https://t.co/pknluilFtH

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Interested in enzyme design? Check out this paper from Don Hilvert and David Baker @UWproteindesign

#syntheticbiology

https://t.co/azCbUEI0LI

[Mohamad Abedi @Mohamad_Abedi]

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 https://t.co/uq6syLt727

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Watch the full event: https://t.co/Iv9VLuSU2q

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🔴 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)

https://t.co/OtdAq6HcPE

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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.

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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: https://t.co/tHqjg2Bkcd

Spotify: https://t.co/tMDvjtyIeK

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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: https://t.co/GAzw0mycyR

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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: https://t.co/fiVhscMwzz

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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: https://t.co/kBk9SW7Stc

Spotify: https://t.co/WiozZ2HwGA

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@UW @UWMedicine @HHMINEWS @NobelPrize Full UW Medicine press conference (Oct 9, 2024; 26 minutes)

https://t.co/DxZGIiNNas

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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
https://t.co/dqE6tCyJMj

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@UW @UWMedicine @HHMINEWS @NobelPrize

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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.” 

https://t.co/LjXeBs53Il

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“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: https://t.co/UXuprQB0gs

[HHMI @hhmi_science]

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

[HHMI @hhmi_science]

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 https://t.co/td70VCO3eJ