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HWI scientist Dr. Michael G. Malkowski receives grant to support one of nine membrane protein centers in the nation.

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Local Buffalo scientist Dr. Russ Miller is leading the rollout of "Magic," one of the most powerful computers in New York State to qualified users worldwide for solving computationally-demanding problems.

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The molecular details of Aromatase, the key enzyme required for the body to make estrogen and can serve as a drug target for estrogen-dependent tumors in breast cancer is no longer a mystery thanks to the structural biology work done by the Ghosh lab at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI) in Buffalo, New York.

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Dr. Eaton E. Lattman, currently Dean of Research and Graduate Education in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), has been appointed Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute. Lattman will assume the position on July 1, 2008.

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Canadian researchers expect to accelerate the war on cancer by tapping into a global network of hundreds of thousands of people who volunteer their idle computer time to tackle some of the world's most complex problems. The research team are the first from Canada to use the World Community Grid, a network of PCs and laptops with the power equivalent to one of the globe's top five fastest supercomputers.

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Dr. Dan Gewirth, Hauptman-Woodward senior research scientist, has just solved the structure of the first mammalian GRP94 protein implicated in immune diseases such as sepsis, AIDS and certain cancers. His work is being published today in a cover article in a top scientific journal Molecular Cell.