David Baker wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry @UWMedicineHealth

Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

A video recap of the day David Baker, professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington School of Medicine, learned he was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Highlights are the moment the prize was announced October 9, 2024 in Sweden, a press conference at the UW Suzzallo Library, Baker being heartily congratulated by the staff and students at his lab, and look inside the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design. Baker also explains why new proteins molecules are being created from scratch to try to solve challenges in medicine and several other fields.

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