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$3M Breakthrough Prize goes to scientist designing molecules to fight COVID-19 – Yahoo Finance Australia
One in particular is a tech/science crossover: A $3 million award to David Baker, whose work over the last 20 years has helped validate the idea that computers can help us understand and create complex molecules like proteins — and the latest such molecule ma…
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced $21.75 million in awards today for a variety of scientific achievements. One in particular is a tech/science crossover: A $3 million award to David Baker, whose work over the last 20 years has helped validate the idea that computers can help us understand and create complex molecules like proteins and the latest such molecule may lead to new treatments for COVID-19.
Baker is the head of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington,…
