Baker at work (Image: University of Washington)
University of Washington biochemist — and Garfield High School graduate and Capitol Hill resident — David Baker is now a Nobel Prize winner.
Baker will share in this year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry.
“David’s visionary exploration has helped revolutionize the field of protein design, and he and his team are developing new proteins to address some of the most pressing problems we face as a species and a planet,” UW said in its announcement. “Potential applications for designed proteins range from new vaccines, antivirals and cancer treatments; to new ways of sequestering carbon and harmful greenhouse gasses; to breaking down environmental pollutants, among many others.”
Baker is the director of the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design.
A leader in the field of protein design, Baker attended Garfield in the early ’80s before attending Harvard and then UC Berkeley.
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Those are all really cool applications, but what are the steak cooking implications here?
Do brilliant research and win a Nobel and you, too, can afford to cook a lot of steak.
Go Bulldogs!! More Nobels, please
You are exactly correct.