Demis Hassabis and John Jumper are the 101st and 102nd Canada Canada Gairdner laureates to win the Nobel Prize
Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, “for protein structure prediction.”
Drs. Hassabis and Jumper were awarded the 2023 Canada Gairdner International Award, for developing AlphaFold, which has been heralded as an AI-based solution to the 50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction and has culminated in the release of the most accurate and complete picture of the structure of the human proteome, with enormous potential to accelerate biological and medical research.
Drs. Hassabis and Jumper are the 101st and 102nd Canada Gairdner Award laureates to win the Nobel Prize.
A HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS TO DRS. HASSABIS AND JUMPER!
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Demis Hassabis
PhD CBE FRS FREngDemis Hassabis is the Founder and CEO of DeepMind, the world’s leading AI research company, and now a part of Alphabet. Founded in 2010, DeepMind has been at the forefront of the field ever since, producing landmark research breakthroughs such as AlphaGo, the first program to beat the world champion at the complex game of Go, and AlphaFold, which was heralded as a solution to the 50-year grand challenge of protein folding.
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John Jumper
PhD, MPhil John Jumper received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Chicago, where he developed machine learning methods to simulate protein dynamics. Prior to that, he worked at D.E. Shaw Research on molecular dynamics simulations of protein dynamics and supercooled liquids. He also holds an MPhil in Physics from the University of Cambridge and a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from Vanderbilt University. At DeepMind, John is leading the development of new methods to apply machine learning to protein biology.
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