David Baker (biochemist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

David Baker (biochemist)

American biochemist, computational biologist

Date of Birth: 06-Oct-1962

Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, United States

Profession: bioinformatician, biochemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

David Baker (born October 6, 1962 in Seattle, Washington) is an American biochemist and computational biologist who has pioneered methods to predict and design the three-dimensional structures of proteins.
He is the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry and an adjunct professor of Genome Sciences, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics at the University of Washington.
He serves as the Director of the Rosetta Commons, a consortium of labs and researchers that develop biomolecular structure prediction and design software.
He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
He is also the director of the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design.