TPU professor: Chemistry Nobel awarded for groundbreaking research into protein structure
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to American scientist David Baker “for computational protein design” and jointly to British scientist Demis Hassabis and American scientist John Jumper “for protein structure prediction”. According to Andrei Khlebnikov, Professor at the Kizhner Research Center and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Modeling and Synthesis of Biologically Active Compounds of TPU, the protein structure prediction methods are of utmost interest in drug design.
