David Baker (biochemist)

David Baker
Baker in 2013
Born	(1962-10-06) October 6, 1962 (age 61)
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley University of California, San Francisco
Known for	Protein design Protein structure prediction Rosetta@Home Fold.it
Spouse	Hannele Ruohola-Baker
Awards	Beckman Young Investigators Award[1] Overton Prize Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology TED's Audacious Prize[2] Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2021) Wiley Prize (2022) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022)
Scientific career
Fields	Computational biology
Institutions	University of Washington Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Doctoral advisor	Randy Schekman
Other academic advisors	David Agard
Doctoral students	Richard Bonneau
Other notable students	Brian Kuhlman, Tanja Kortemme
Website	www.bakerlab.org

David Baker (born October 6, 1962, in Seattle, Washington^[3]) is an American biochemist and computational biologist who has pioneered methods to predict and design the three-dimensional structures of proteins. He is the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry and an adjunct professor of genome sciences, bioengineering, chemical engineering, computer science, and physics at the University of Washington. He serves as the director of the Rosetta Commons, a consortium of labs and researchers that develop biomolecular structure prediction and design software. The problem of protein structure prediction to which Baker has contributed significantly has now been largely solved by DeepMind using artificial intelligence.^[4] Baker is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is also the director of the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design.^[5]