John Jumper (AI researcher)

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John Jumper, based in London, is a senior research scientist at DeepMind Technologies.[1][2] John Jumper and his colleagues at DeepMind in London 2021 released AlphaFold, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to predict protein structures with stunning accuracy.[3] John Jumper recently stated that in the coming months, the AlphaFold team plans to release 100 million protein structures.[4] The scientific journal Nature included John Jumper as one of the ten "people who mattered" in science in their annual listing of Nature's 10 2021.

For 2021 he received the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences.[5] For 2023 he received the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for developing AlphaFold, which accurately predicts the structure of protein[6]

References

  1. ^ Maxmen, Amy. "Nature's 10". nature.com. Springer Nature. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  2. ^ Eisenstein, Michael (2021). "Artificial intelligence powers protein-folding predictions". Nature. Springer Nature. 599 (7886): 706–708. doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03499-y. S2CID 244528561. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  3. ^ Maxmen, Amy. "Nature's 10". nature.com. Springer Nature. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  4. ^ Browne, Grace. "DeepMind's AI has finally shown how useful it can be". Wired. Condé Nast Britain 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  5. ^ Wiley Prize 2021
  6. ^ "Breakthrough Prizes 2023". Retrieved 22 September 2022.