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Blood-clotting protein and blood platelets promote immune evasion, cancer progression
A new study reveals how a clotting protein and blood platelets can promote cancer progression and suppress immune responses to cancer. The study relates thrombin (a clotting protein in the blood), can cause blood platelets to release transforming growth factor-beta 1...
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Names Director for New Cryo-Electron Microscopy Center
Dr. Qiu-Xing Jiang joins HWI from University of FloridaQiu-Xing Jiang, Ph.D., an accomplished researcher who specializes in cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM), has been named director of the new Cryo-EM center currently under development at HWI. He comes to Buffalo...
Research Administration Lecture Series
The Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI) is an independent research institution aimed at understanding diseases and finding new cures. It was based on, Herbert Hauptman’s courage to challenge conventional wisdom in crystallography, while also changing...
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Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Welcomes Six New Board Members
The Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI), an international...
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Crystallization Center Awarded Major Grant by National Institutes of Health
Five-year award brings prestige, jobs, investment to Western New York The...
Structural biology at the center of COVID-19 scientific efforts
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted almost every aspect of our lives in...
Nobel Laureate Dr. Joachim Frank to Give Inaugural Lecture for New Cryo-Electron Microscopy Center at Hauptman-Woodward
State-of-the-art research center to be launched in February The...