HHMI Investigator, professor of biochemistry, and adjunct professor of genome sciences, bioengineering, chemical engineering, computer science, and physics
dabaker@uw.edu

David Baker

Currently accepting graduate students

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Research Interests

Protein design
drug development
drug delivery
nanomaterials
hybrid materials
enzyme design
protein structure prediction
machine learning
computational biology

We develop protein design software and use it to create molecules that solve challenges in medicine, technology, and sustainability. By iterating between computation and laboratory experiments, we continually improve our protein design methods.

PhD, Biochemistry, University of California – Berkeley, 1989