Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of RTU MIREA Andrey Dorokhov explained the importance of work in the field of protein molecules, for which the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 2024.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to American scientist David Baker and British researchers Demis Hassabis and John Jumper.
“Hassabis and Jumper were able to predict the structures of almost all known proteins using AI. This gives scientists the opportunity to better and more deeply understand the processes that occur in living organisms at the biochemical level and opens up new prospects for creating, for example, new, more effective drugs and vaccines,” Dorokhov noted.
Together with Baker’s discovery, this also makes it possible to purposefully obtain new proteins with desired properties, Dorokhov noted.
“In particular, enzymes that catalyze reactions necessary for humans to produce various useful substances by biochemical means, including with the help of genetically modified bacteria or yeast,” Dorokhov concluded.
Earlier it became known that the first half of the Nobel Prize was awarded to David Baker “for the computational design of proteins,” and the second half to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for predicting protein structures.”
