Dr. Paul Ramsey, CEO of UW Medicine, announces the establishment of the Institute for Protein Design (IPD).   “A major challenge for designing proteins for specific purposes is predicting three-dimensional shape from the amino acid sequence. Dr. David Baker, UW professor of biochemistry and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has had remarkable success in making these predictions and in designing new proteins with new functions.”  

Baker will serve as the director or the IPD which will coalesce and expand existing strengths within the UW and Seattle. The IPD will integrate UW expertise in biochemistry, engineering, computer science and medicine, and leverage local strength in the software industry to design a whole new world of synthetic proteins that address challenges in medicine, energy and technology.

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