Audacious Philanthropy: Congrats to David Baker and his Institute for […]

Audacious Philanthropy: Congrats to David Baker and his Institute for Protein Design for winning a #TED2019 Donation of $45M for foundational science! Imagine a universal flu vaccine capable of providing lifetime immunization. https://newsroom.uw.edu/news/protein-design-named-audacious-project-0

I have been a Baker Lab fanboy for the past 8 years, before becoming a donor: flic.kr/p/artW8z In this talk, I highlighted his groundbreaking work in designing proteins that target the invariant part of H1N1 flu and novel catalytic enzymes using 250,000 computers.