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Stockholm: The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M Jumper. This time the award has been divided into two parts. One part is credited to David Baker and the other to the duo of Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper. David Baker received the award for Computational Protein Design. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have been selected for the Nobel Prize for developing the ability to predict protein structure.
This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is for protein research. Baker has achieved the almost impossible feat of creating an entirely new type of protein, while Hassabis and Jumper have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model to solve a 50-year-old problem of predicting complex protein structures. This will reveal many secrets of proteins invaluable to human life.
The head of the Nobel Committee said that this is an important research in terms of the relationship between amino acid sequence and protein structure. In fact, this has been a major challenge in chemistry and especially biochemistry for decades. Thus a very important success has been achieved on this front.
The Royal Swedish Academy states that Baker Group has produced many different types of protein since its creation in 2003. It can be used in pharmaceuticals, vaccines, nanomaterials and as tiny sensors. On the other hand, through their AI models, Hassabis and Jumper have been able to predict the structure of all 200 million proteins. Scientists have long dreamed of predicting three-dimensional protein structures.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has said that this research will greatly benefit mankind. Scientists can now better understand antibiotic resistance and image the enzyme, the academy said in a statement. With its help we can now predict protein structures accurately and design our own proteins, which will be a boon for mankind.
Last year this award was given to G. Bawendi and Lewis E. Burruss and Alexey I. Ekimov.
