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Protein folding researcher David Baker to receive Sackler Prize ...

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Mon, 11/24/2008 - 23:00

(University of Washington) University of Washington biochemistry professor David Baker will receive a 2008 Raymond & Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics for his discoveries in protein folding.

He created the Rosetta@home program, which allows people around the world to contribute unused computer time to protein folding research.


 

USA/UK scientific forum to be established

The Royal Society  Sun, 09/07/2008 - 19:00

The Royal Society has today announced the establishment of a new USA/UK scientific forum to be operated jointly with the National Academy of Sciences in the US.

The forum is to be funded by a substantial gift from the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation.