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The conference will be held at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI). The HWI is an independent, not-for-profit, biomedical research facility. It is part of the Buffalo-Niagara Medical Campus, a world-class consortium of research, clinical and educational institutions located in downtown Buffalo, NY.
Founded in 1956 as the Medical Foundation of Buffalo, the HWI came into existence through the vision and efforts of Buffalo physician and endocrinologist George F. Koepf and the generous financial support of Helen Woodward Rivas. In 1994 it has been renamed the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute to honor Woodward Rivas' early support of the Medical Foundation and in memory of Nobel Laureat Herbert A. Hauptman, sinc e1972 research director of the Medical Foundation of Buffalo and later President of the HWI. While pursuing his studies at the Naval Research Laboratory and later at HWI Hauptman pioneered mathematical techniques for determining atomic structure from X-ray diffraction. For his breakthrough contributions to the solution of the phase problem in crystallography he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Price in Chemistry.
Today, the HWI is one of the formost places in the world for conducting structural biology research. The HWI’s High Throughput Crystallization Lab is one of the first laboratories in the world to utilize High Throughput Screening (HTS) methods to identify initial crystallization conditions of biological macromolecules. From February 2000 through February 2012, the HTS laboratory was used to set up 21 million crystallization experiments on > 13,750 samples. Over the course of HWI's history, its scientists have crystallized and determined the structure of more than 300 steroid hormones, 100 thyroid hormones, 50 ion transport antibiotics, 30 prostaglandins, and hundreds of additional compounds including proteins and enzymes implicated in diseases.
HWI also houses the American Crystallographic Association (ACA), and serves as the seat of the University of Buffalo Department of Structural Biology.