Roman Barth announced as 2024 Schmidt Science Fellow

Roman Barth is named member of the 2024 Schmidt Science Fellows, along with thirty-one other early-career researchers. He will use powerful deep learning-based algorithms to design new candidates for a promising, but difficult to identify, class of drugs.

Proteins have varied tasks to fulfil within cells. To function appropriately, proteins need to adopt the correct three-dimensional structure. Misfolding of proteins is involved in up to 50% of human diseases during disease progression.

Pharmacological chaperones are a promising class of drugs to treat the progression of these diseases, but they are difficult to identify. As a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellow, Roman will employ powerful deep learning-based algorithms to predict protein structure and design pharmacological chaperones from scratch.

About Schmidt Science Fellows

Schmidt Science Fellows was established in 2018 to help researchers expand their work across areas of study and build a community of interdisciplinary thinkers dedicated to solving the world’s biggest challenges. It is an initiative of Schmidt Sciences, a philanthropic organization founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt to advance exploration and discovery that deepen our understanding of the natural world and develop solutions to global issues.