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Structural biology at the center of COVID-19 scientific efforts
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted almost every aspect of our lives in the past year and continues to do so. In March, at the one-year mark of the World Health Organization declaration that COVID-19 is a pandemic, researchers at HWI – Drs. Miranda Lynch, Edward Snell...
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 Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI), an international leader in structural biology located on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, will host Nobel Laureate Dr. Joachim Frank for a virtual...
Engineering high-resolution insight from a low-resolution technique
A significant problem in biological X-ray crystallography is the radiation chemistry caused by the incident X-ray beam. This produces both global and site-specific damage. Site-specific damage can misdirect the biological interpretation of the structural models...
Dr. Rory Curtis joins the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute as Vice President for Business Development
The Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI), an international leader in structural biology located on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, announced that Rory Curtis, Ph.D. has joined the Institute as Vice President of Business Development. Dr. Curtis’...
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Announces Re-Appointment of Three Board Members, Election of Board Officers
The Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI), an international leader in structural biology located on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, announced that three members were recently re-elected to three-year terms on the organization’s Board of Directors. The...
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Welcomes New Board Members
The Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI), an international leader in structural biology located on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, announced that four new members were recently elected to three-year terms on the organization’s Board of Directors. The...
Connections Grow the NSF BioXFEL Center Scientific Community: Darya Marchany Rivera
Photo by Dawn Harmer As a young girl growing up in Puerto Rico, Darya Marchany Rivera was drawn to anything having to do with science. She began participating in science fairs in 7th grade, and in 10th grade she was part of a sample preparation workshop/competition...
IMCA Consortium to Accelerate Drug Discovery Welcomes Janssen
The Industrial Macromolecular Crystallography Association (IMCA), an association of pharmaceutical companies that leverages the power of high-energy X-rays to accelerate structural biology research for drug discovery, announced that Janssen Research & Development,...
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Aids Important COVID-19 Study, Gains Additional Federal Funding
As the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic continues, work being supported by the Crystallization Center at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI) has delivered some encouraging results. In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers...