When University of Washington Biochemistry Professor David Baker began researching how to design proteins from scratch, he and his research team were in the "lunatic fringe." Now, he has a Nobel Prize.

University of Washington biochemist David Baker has won a share of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry for more than two decades of discoveries about the molecular structure of proteins — discoveries that have led to new medical therapies,

A University of Washington professor received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work designing new proteins, the building blocks of life. David Baker, professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington School of Medicine and director of the school’s Institute for Protein Design,