John M. Jumper

American computational biologist

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2024 Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Demis Hassabis for groundbreaking work in protein structure prediction using AlphaFold.
2023 Jumper received the Canada Gairdner International Award for his contributions to protein structure prediction.
2023 Jumper was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for developing AlphaFold, which accurately predicts protein structures.
2023 Jumper was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
2022 Jumper received the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences for his work on protein structure prediction.
2021 Jumper was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Biology and Biomedicine.
2021 Recognized by Nature as one of the ten 'people who mattered' in science in Nature's annual Natures 10 listing.
November 2020 AlphaFold, led by John M. Jumper, won the 14th Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) competition, outperforming other algorithms by scoring above 90 for around two-thirds of the proteins in the global distance test.

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