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WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 2024 鈥� On behalf of the American Chemical 中国365bet中文官网 (ACS), President Mary K. Carroll congratulates today鈥檚 winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: David Baker, of the University of Washington; Demis Hassabis, of Google DeepMind; and John M. Jumper, of Google DeepMind. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the prize with one half to Baker 鈥渇or computational protein design鈥� and the other half jointly to Hassabis and Jumper 鈥渇or protein structure prediction.鈥�
鈥淭his incredibly complex problem of predicting the 3D structures of proteins from the sequence of amino acids has been one of the biggest challenges in chemistry. We care about this because structure determines function 鈥� that鈥檚 one of the fundamental tenets of chemistry. The ability to design new proteins goes hand in hand with predicting the structure of proteins,鈥� says Carroll. 鈥淭he wonderful complexity of proteins has made these formidable tasks, and the solutions have relied on the power of neural networks and sophisticated computational work combined with fundamental knowledge of the underlying chemistry.鈥�
Baker is the winner of the 2014 David Perlman Memorial Award, presented by ACS鈥� Division of Biochemical Technology. His talk on 鈥淭he Coming of Age of De Novo Protein Design鈥� is featured in the ACS Publications webinar 鈥�Grand Challenges in Bio & Medicinal Chemistry Frontiers in Carbohydrate and Protein Chemistry.鈥� Baker gave a plenary talk on 鈥淧ost-Evolutionary Biology: Design of Novel Protein Structures, Functions and Assemblies鈥� at ACS Spring 2016.
Jumper is a part of the ACS member community and gave a plenary talk on 鈥淓xpanding the Role of Machine Learning in Chemistry鈥� at ACS Fall 2023.
Baker and Jumper have published articles in some of ACS鈥� more than 80 peer-reviewed journals. Baker, Hassabis and Jumper have appeared in news articles on the work in Chemical & Engineering News, ACS鈥� weekly newsmagazine. Articles are available upon request.
News media can arrange interviews with Carroll or other experts in the field by contacting the ACS newsroom. In addition, ACS will post a special Headline Science short video about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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