Department of Energy three-year grant for AI-assisted biomedical research

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $1.5 million to a joint Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute and University at Buffalo research project that will use artificial intelligence to study how cells and molecules respond to low doses of radiation. Dr. Edward Snell, Chief Scientific Officer at Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, and Dominic Sellitto, clinical assistant professor of management science and systems in the UB School of Management, will serve as co-principal investigators on the research.

HWI to join UB, strengthening medical science research and education in WNY

The move will bolster health, well-being and innovation in Buffalo Niagara and beyond

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute will join the University at Buffalo, a move designed to strengthen the two organizations’ joint mission to advance medical science research and education in Western New York and beyond.

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Dr. Keefe Elected to Board of the AIP

Dr. Lisa J. Keefe has been elected by the Council of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA) to serve as a director on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Physics (AIP).

Congratulations to Dr. Keefe on this appointment and on being a recognized leader in the community.

Dr. Bowman Publishes in Acta Crystallographica C

Last November, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute scientist Sarah EJ Bowman, the director of the National Crystallization Center, was an invited speaker and participant in the Electron Diffraction Symposium and Workshop at the National Center for CryoEM Access and Training at the New York Structural Biology Center. The symposium resulted in a recently published paper in the journal Acta Crystallographica C, Structural Chemistry, entitled “Applying 3D ED/MicroED workflows toward the next frontiers“.

Hauptman-Woodward Institute Scientist Participates in Study of Protein Folding Mechanisms

Dr. Daniel Gewirth, an Investigator at HWI, has participated in a study that examined the way in which proteins are activated in the human body. The collaborative study, published in the prestigious journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, showed how helper proteins, called chaperones, collaborate with each other to achieve the folded state of their client proteins.

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Dr. Paz publishes in Nature Communications 

HWI scientist Dr. Aviv Paz was part of a team that published a paper entitled “Membrane potential accelerates sugar uptake by stabilizing the outward-facing conformation of the Na/glucose symporter vSGLT” in the journal Nature Communications. This work with scientists at the University of California Los Angeles and San Francisco has broad implications for transporting numerous chemicals in the body and managing life-threatening conditions like diabetes, heart failure, and kidney failure.