David Baker

David Baker is a biochemist who is known for his pioneering work in the field of computational protein design and protein structure prediction. His research group focuses on prediction and design of protein structures, protein-folding mechanisms, protein–protein interactions, protein–nucleotide interactions, and protein–ligand interactions. Baker received his Ph D degree in biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and completed his postdoctoral work in biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. He is currently a professor of Biochemistry and Director of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington, USA. He is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He has received young investigator awards and fellowships from reputed science foundations. He has also received the Irving Sigal Young Investigator award from the Protein Society and the Overton Prize from the International Society of Computational Biology. He is a recipient of the Feynman Prize from the Foresight Institute, AAAS Newcomb– Cleveland Prize, Sackler Prize in biophysics, and the Centenary Award from the Biochemical Society.