Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design and for protein structure prediction

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about pro­teins, life’s ingenious chemical tools

09-Oct-2024 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 with one half to David Baker (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind, London, UK) John M. Jumper ...

Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2018 announced

Appreciation of the research in directed evolution and manipulation of enzymes and antibodies

04-Oct-2018 - The researchers Frances H. Arnold and George P. Smith and Gregory P. Winter were announced as this year's winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Their achievements in the directed evolution in enzymes and the use of phage-display to produce antibodies was groundbreaking and worthy of the Nobel ...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome

The ribosome translates the DNA code into life

07-Oct-2009 - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 awards studies of one of life's core processes: the ribosome's translation of DNA information into life. Ribosomes produce proteins, which in turn control the chemistry in all living organisms. As ribosomes are crucial to life, they are also a major target ...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 awarded for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation

07-Oct-2004 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2004 "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation" jointly to Aaron Ciechanover (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel,) Avram Hershko (Technion - Israel Institute of ...