David Baker Biography

David Baker is the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry Director of the Institute for Protein Design Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and adjunct professor of Genome Sciences Bioengineering Chemical Engineering Computer Science and Physics at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry with Randy Schekman at the University of California Berkeley and did postdoctoral work in biophysics with David Agard at UCSF. His research group is focused on the prediction and design of macromolecular structures interactions and functions.
Dr. Baker received young investigator awards from the National Science Foundation and the Beckman Foundation and the Packard Foundation fellowship in Science and Engineering. He has also received the Irving Sigal Young Investigator award from the Protein Society and the Overton Prize from the International Society of Computational Biology. He is a recipient of the Feynman Prize from the Foresight Institute the AAAS Newcomb_Cleveland prize the Sackler prize in biophysics and the Centenary award from the Biochemical society. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Sciences. His research group is a world leader in computational protein design and protein structure prediction.

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