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Interview with Director Emerita Helen Berman
10/20 
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced that they will award David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 for computational protein design and protein structure prediction.
These achievements also celebrate the work of the PDB depositor community and the PDB archive that underpinned development of their prediction methods.
Helen M. BermanHelen M. Berman, RCSB PDB Director Emerita and Board of Governors distinguished professor emerita of chemistry and chemical Biology at Rutgers University–New Brunswick as well as a professor (research) of quantitative and computational biology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, was recently interviewed by Nature.
The huge protein database that spawned AlphaFold and biology’s AI revolution
Ewen Callaway (2024) doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03423-0
Other articles highlighting connections between the PDB and the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry include
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 wwPDB
- NSF congratulates laureates of the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry US National Science Foundation
- Chemistry Nobel goes to developers of AlphaFold AI that predicts protein structures Nature
- Nobel for ‘breakthrough in biochemistry’ ASBMB Today
- The 2024 Chemistry Nobel: Computational Protein Design Science
- Baker, Hassabis, and Jumper win 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Chemical & Engineering News
- Nobel Prize for AI breakthrough has roots in USC Dornsife professor’s work University of Southern California
- How AI protein structure prediction and design won the Nobel prize Chemistry World
PDB-101 offers Nobel-prize related resources about protein prediction and design, including
- Exploring Structural Biology with Computed Structure Models (CSMs)
- Guide to Understanding PDB Data: Computed Structure Models
- Recorded Webinar: A Deep Dive into Computed Structure Model Exploration at RCSB.org
- Structural Biology and Nobel Prizes
- Molecule of the Month: Designer Proteins
- Molecule of the Month: Designed Proteins and Citizen Science
- Molecule of the Month: ZAR1 Resistosome
