HWI News
HWI staff in Chicago help Pfizer create an effective COVID-19 treatment
Our team at the Advanced Photon Source have helped Pfizer create a COVID-19 treatment. The new drug candidate, Paxlovid, significantly reduced hospitalization and death in adult patients, according to Pfizer, and will be submitted for an emergency use authorization in...
Studying radiation damage in biological systems – New tools and new knowledge
X-ray-based techniques are a powerful tool in structural biology but the radiation-induced chemistry that results can be detrimental and may mask an accurate structural understanding. Therapeutic radiation is used for cancer treatment and understanding the biological...
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Welcomes Six 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 six new members were recently elected to three-year terms on the organization’s Board of Directors. The...
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 Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI), an international leader in structural biology located on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, has been awarded a grant totaling nearly $5...
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...