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Hear from University of Washington graduate student Gizem Gökçe-Alpkılıç about how AI tools in protein design are helping fight against biological threats and antibiotic resistance, targeting proteins associated with critical diseases, like cancer.

Led by Nobel Prize winner David Baker, the UW’s Institute for Protein Design uses AI tools to create proteins — biology’s building blocks — that lay the foundation for new medicines and other promising solutions to complex real-world problems. Watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoslHKmSfnc

Learn more about the Institute for Protein Design: https://www.washington.edu/boundless/ai-powered-medicine

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As an undergraduate, Samir Faruq, ’26, has had the opportunity to do important hands-on research using AI to design proteins at the University of Washington.

Led by Nobel Prize winner David Baker, the UW’s Institute for Protein Design uses AI tools to create proteins — biology’s building blocks — that lay the foundation for new medicines and other promising solutions to complex real-world problems. Watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoslHKmSfnc

Learn more about the Institute for Protein Design: https://www.washington.edu/boundless/ai-powered-medicine

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Better treatments for cancer, autoimmune diseases, viruses and more are now possible thanks to groundbreaking work with AI from the scientists at the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design (IPD) https://www.ipd.uw.edu/. Led by Nobel Prize winner David Baker, this team of Huskies uses AI tools to create proteins — biology’s building blocks — that lay the foundation for new medicines and other promising solutions to complex real-world problems. Read more: uw.edu/boundless/ai-powered-medicine

Baker, UW alum Andrew J. Borst, undergraduate student Samir Faruq, and graduate students Meg Lunn-Halbert and Gizem Gökçe-Alpkılıç talk about how designing new proteins with AI is transforming medicine and beyond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CpJihT2cYE. Proteins are what make life possible on Earth and play a key role in the human body. With the AI-powered tools they’ve created, IPD scientists can create brand-new proteins to rapidly tackle urgent problems like antibiotic resistance, biological threats and breaking down plastics.

“There really was nowhere else in the world where you could be involved in protein design like the University of Washington, because the University of Washington is where protein design started.” — Andrew J. Borst, IPD Head of Electron Microscopy R&D

Baker calls his lab a “communal brain” where scientists work collaboratively across disciplines to create new ideas and solutions. He says his real role is preparing students for future careers by training and mentoring students who — with their UW degree — go on to do “wonderful things,” including starting new biotech companies, many of them in Seattle.



Learn more about Professor David Baker, a recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: uw.edu/boundless/biochemist-david-baker-receives-nobel-prize

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A celebration of University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce’s decades-long tenure as a faculty member and leader — and of the community she inspired. Hear from UW colleagues like Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Affairs Ed Taylor, ’93, and community members including Microsoft Corporation President Brad Smith, who describe her as a collaborative, inspiring facilitator who has led the UW with steadfast values, decisive guidance and transformational vision.

Learn more about Cauce’s life and career: https://www.washington.edu/anamaricauce

Under Cauce’s leadership, the UW moved to the Big Ten Conference https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/08/04/university-of-washington-will-join-the-big-ten-conference-in-2024, implemented the Husky Promise https://www.washington.edu/huskypromise, launched the powerful Be Boundless campaign https://www.washington.edu/giving/be-boundless-campaign, and instituted the Race & Equity Initiative https://www.washington.edu/raceequity, all of which continue to expand access to world-class education and foster belonging. Cultivating community ties during the hardest of times — including the COVID-19 pandemic — illustrates Cauce’s person-first approach to amplifying what Huskies and the greater UW community can achieve together. Cauce’s personal experience as a Cuban immigrant, and her family’s unshakable belief in education, inspired her to improve the student experience for all Huskies and bring higher education within reach, making the UW truly the University for Washington.

On Aug. 1, the UW welcomes Robert J. Jones, current chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a distinguished scholar, to the purple and gold as the 34th president of the University of Washington. Jones will be the first African American in the role. Learn more: https://www.washington.edu/news/2025/02/03/34th-uw-president/

Watch video recap of President Cauce’s final year in office: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaa-mJ6zhUs

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University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce reflects on her final year in office. See highlights from Commencement 2024, UW Professor David Baker winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEWdJxQIsSE, UW Family Weekend, student move-in day, New Student Convocation, Big Ten Husky home games and Cauce throwing the first pitch for the Seattle Mariners. Under Cauce’s leadership as UW president for the past decade, the UW has seen remarkable growth, meaningful change and a strong community.

Learn more about Cauce’s life and career: https://www.washington.edu/anamaricauce

Cauce has called the UW home for almost 40 years, serving the University and Washington state as UW president for the last 10. She’s been a guiding force in shaping the UW community with vision and compassion, increasing access to higher education and helping students make the world a better place. From teaching and mentoring students as a professor to inspiring the Husky community as an administrative leader, Cauce’s trademark enthusiasm for the UW will continue to shine brightly. This is not goodbye, says Cauce; she’ll continue to focus on the work of the UW as a faculty member and lifetime Husky.

Thank-yous from the Husky community include Frank Hodge, Dean of the Foster School of Business; Mike Egan, former president of the UW Alumni Association; the Gates family, including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Libby Gates MacPhee, former member of the UW Board of Regents; and Washington State Senator Javier Valdez.

Watch Husky leaders reflect on UW President Ana Mari Cauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaAGxtjeo3E

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