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Dr. Baker is also Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Washington, Seattle. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard University and received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked with Randy Schekman. His postdoctoral work in biochemistry and biophysics was done with David Agard at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Baker received young investigator awards from the Packard Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Beckman Foundation; the Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award from the Protein Society; and the Overton Award from the International Society of Computational Biology. He is a recipient of the Feynman Prize from the Foresight Institute and the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize, and was recently elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:
David Baker's current research goals are to predict the structures of naturally occurring biomolecules and interactions and to design new molecules with new and useful functions. These prediction and design challenges have direct relevance for biomedicine and provide stringent and objective tests of our understanding of the fundamental underpinnings of molecular biology.
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