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This JCI viewpoint article celebrates the 2023 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award given to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of DeepMind for developing AlphaFold, the AI system that solved the protein structure prediction problem. The piece contextualizes AlphaFold's transformative impact on biological sciences since its 2020 announcement, noting how widespread its adoption has become in research.
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- •Demis Hassabis and John Jumper received the 2023 Lasker Award for inventing AlphaFold, which predicts 3D protein structures from 1D amino acid sequences.
- •AlphaFold's impact is described as so pervasive that 'I alphafolded it' has become common scientific vernacular, analogous to 'I googled it'.
- •The announcement of AlphaFold's success in November 2020 marked a revolution in biological sciences, solving a decades-long grand challenge.
- •The article reflects on AI's capacity to solve fundamental scientific problems, relevant to discussions of AI capabilities and transformative potential.
- •Recognition by the Lasker Award signals broad scientific consensus that AlphaFold represents a landmark achievement in AI-driven science.
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AlphaFold developers Demis Hassabis and John Jumper share the 2023 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
Tobin R. Sosnick
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Address correspondence to: Tobin R. Sosnick, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, 929 E. 57th St., GCIS Room W101C, Chicago, Illinois, 60637 USA. Phone: 773.218.5950; Email: trsosnic@uchicago.edu .
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Published September 21, 2023
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2023;133(19):e174915.
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The 2023 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award has been given to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of DeepMind for the invention of AlphaFold, the artificial intelligence (AI) system that solved the long-standing challenge of predicting the three-dimensional (3D) structure of proteins from the one-dimensional (1D) sequence of their amino acids.
The expression “I alphafolded it” is now something I hear almost every day, whether in the lab, during a thesis defense, or at a scientific conference.
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