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A New World of Designed Macrocycles
Today marks another major step forward for peptide based drug discovery. IPD researchers report in Science the computational design of a new world of small cyclic peptides, “Macrocycles”, increasing...
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End-of-year profile in The New York Times
At the end of a historic year for protein design, the Baker lab was honored to be profiled in the New York Times by famed science writer Carl Zimmer. Zimmer writes about the technology, progress and...
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De Novo Design of Membrane Proteins
It is now possible to create complex, custom-designed transmembrane proteins from scratch ! Today Baker lab members published in Science “Accurate computational design of multipass transmembrane...
View ArticleSCI-STEM Symposium 2018
Update 2018-07-26: The 2018 SCI-STEM Symposium was recently featured in an eLife article. The Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington held its first ever symposium aimed at...
View ArticleOpen Philanthropy Project Awards $11.3 Million to Institute for Protein...
Gift seeks universal flu vaccine and will advance Rosetta software Seattle — The Institute for Protein Design (IPD) at UW Medicine in Seattle has been awarded $11.3 million from the Open...
View Article2018 IPD Newsletter from David Baker
It was a great year for the Institute for Protein Design and we couldn’t have done all of our amazing work without the support from our donors and contributors! Thank you to everyone who helped us,...
View ArticleNature article on IPD work voted ‘2018 Reader’s Choice’
Readers of Nature’s News & Views selected an article about our work as their 2018 Reader’s Choice! The article, written by Roberto Chica of the University of Ottawa, does a fantastic job detailing...
View ArticleOur Audacious Project
Yesterday we were thrilled to reveal that we have been selected as part of The Audacious Project, a philanthropic collaborative organized by TED! You can read all about our project here. In short, we...
View ArticleOur outstanding postdoc mentors
Each year, a panel here at the University of Washington nominates a small number postdocs of the UW Graduate School’s Postdoc Mentoring Award. We are thrilled to share that this year four of our...
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Feature: The computational protein designers
Jeffrey Perkel, technology editor at Nature, has just written a feature on de novo protein design. PDF
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Radhika wins poster award at ABRCMS!
Undergraduate researcher Radhika Dalal took home a poster award at this year’s Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Anaheim, California. Her mentors include IPD graduate...
View ArticleSCI-STEM Symposium 2020
The Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington held the second symposium aimed at providing strategies to address diversity challenges in science, technology, engineering, and math...
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Introducing WE-REACH, a new biomedical innovation hub
With $4 million in matching funds from the National Institutes of Health, the University of Washington has created a new integrated center to match biomedical discoveries with the resources needed to...
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Rosetta’s role in fighting coronavirus
We are happy to report that the Rosetta molecular modeling suite was recently used to accurately predict the atomic-scale structure of an important coronavirus protein weeks before it could be measured...
View ArticlePlay Foldit to help stop coronavirus (VIDEO)
You don’t have to be a scientist to do science! By playing the computer game Foldit, you can help discover new antiviral drugs that might stop the novel coronavirus. The most promising solutions will...
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Volunteers rally to Rosetta@Home to stop COVID-19
Planetariums, businesses and more are now donating idle computing power to help advance biomedical research. Image: Frost Science As schools, museums, offices and stores shutter to slow the spread of...
View ArticleWith an emergency meeting, RosettaCommons aims to accelerate COVID-19 research
On the day the number of confirmed global COVID-19 infections crossed one million, a team of over three hundred scientists from around the world kicked off a virtual conference aimed at stopping the...
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Introducing UWARN: The United World Antiviral Research Network
The newly formed United World Antiviral Research Network (UWARN) will bring together researchers from institutions in several countries to spot and confront emerging pandemic viruses. The network will...
View ArticleRosetta Commons Black Lives Matter Statement
Trigger warning: mentions acts of violence and racism We, as members of the Rosetta Commons, recognize the grief and frustration of many members of our community and reaffirm our commitment to the...
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Dr. Berger selected for WE-REACH funding
The Washington Entrepreneurial Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub (WE-REACH) has announced its first awards to facilitate early-stage product development for two biomedical innovations....
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