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David Baker is a professor of biochemistry the University of Washington. His lab develops protein design software and use it to create molecules that solve challenges in medicine, technology, and sustainability. Among his recent work is the development of powerful machine learning methods for generating functional proteins.

David is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and adjunct professor of genome sciences, bioengineering, chemical engineering, computer science, and physics at the University of Washington. He has published over 600 research papers, been granted over 100 patents, and co-founded 17 companies. More than 80 of his mentees have gone on to independent faculty positions.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and recipient of numerous awards, including the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.

David received his PhD in biochemistry with Randy Schekman at the University of California, Berkeley, and did postdoctoral work in biophysics with David Agard at UCSF.

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