David Baker

So I think more and more we're going to see random selection

random sort of library screening methods, which are kind of emulating evolution, where, you know, evolution is also all random mutation generation and selection, we're going to see that replaced by intentional protein design.

And that harks back to what I said in my TED talk, where I sort of made the point that, you know, human technology outside of

biology, you know, you start from first principles.

If you want to build a bridge across a river or a flying machine, you don't go looking for a log that has the right shape, but you actually construct it from first principles.

And so I think now that's becoming more and more a reality throughout sort of biotechnology.

I think predicting the future of science is far harder than predicting the structure of a protein or predicting the weather.

So I think it's I think predicting how fast science will progress is a famously impossible challenge.

But I can see broadly speaking, six years from now, I expect to see the medicines of many more medicines approved for use in humans.

I expect to see solutions to major problems and really across the areas that

that I've described.

And then I also anticipate that we'll be working in the field.

We'll be working on problems that I haven't even mentioned.

I haven't mentioned today because I haven't thought of them.

So things are changing so fast that I really what I really hope most is, you know, we're solving problems I can't even conceive of now.

Yeah, well, thanks to everyone who's listening and contributing questions.

It's been great.

Thanks to Ted for organizing this.

And I just want to thank again all the amazing

students and postdocs and others I'm working with now and in the past who really made all this work possible and who've actually done all the work, really.