David Baker (biochemist)
David Baker (born October 6, 1962 in Seattle ) is an American biochemist who is a professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington .
Baker studied at Harvard University and received his PhD in 1989 from the University of California, Berkeley with Randy Schekman (on protein transport in yeast cells). From 1990 to 1993 he was a post-doctoral student with David Agard at the University of California, San Francisco .
He is known for his work on protein folding , especially ab initio protein structure predictions with the Rosetta algorithm, for which he started the Rosetta @ home project (as well as the Foldit project, an online competition for the best possible structure derivation of proteins) in order to carry out the necessary complex calculations with distributed computing. His laboratory regularly participates in CASP .
Baker works at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2006) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009). In 2008 he received the Sackler Prize , in 1994 the Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation , in 2004 the Newcomb-Cleveland Prize from the AAAS and in 2012 the Biochemical Society Centenary Award. In 2004 he received the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology .
His wife Hannele Ruohola-Baker is also a biochemistry professor at the University of Washington.
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| SURNAME | Baker, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle |