Little Rock native John Jumper was recently honored with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

STOCKHOLM, Oct 9 (Reuters) - U.S. scientists David Baker and John Jumper and Briton Demis Hassabis won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work on decoding the structure of proteins and creating new ones, yielding advances in areas such as drug development.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper who discovered powerful techniques to predict and even design novel proteins — the building blocks of life.

A Vanderbilt University graduate was among the three scientists who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this week. Why it matters: The alum, John M. Jumper, helped develop an AI model that solved a decades-long mystery.

DeepMind researchers Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, alongside University of Washington professor David Baker, have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their significant contributions to understanding the structure of proteins,

The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry recognized Demis Hassabis, John Jumper and David Baker for using machine learning to tackle one of biology's biggest challenges: predicting the 3D shape of proteins and designing them from scratch.