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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