Post by University of Washington

Equipped with her doctorate, recent grad Gizem Gökçe-Alpkılıç is using AI-powered tools to create proteins and solve global challenges, like drug-resistant infection. As a young child, Gökçe-Alpkılıç asked her parents for a microscope to allow her to dissect the world around her. She’s still looking at life’s smallest parts today at the UW’s Institute for Protein Design (IPD) — just with a few more sophisticated tools at her disposal. Led by Nobel Prize winner David Baker, the IPD is an interdisciplinary research center that’s harnessing artificial intelligence to design new proteins — the building blocks of biology — to shape the future of medicine and beyond. The real-world impact of this cutting-edge research is what brought Gökçe-Alpkılıç, ’26, halfway across the world from her hometown in Ankara, Turkey, to the UW Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute. Read her story at the link below. https://lnkd.in/g23cQCP2