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  • Independent Study Opportunity for Foster MBA Students

    The Institute for Protein Design is seeking an MBA student to work with Institute leadership to collect market data on small molecule therapeutic targets for protein design. More information about this exciting independent study opportunity can be found on our Employment page here.

  • Institute for Protein Design Establishes Advisory Board

    The Institute for Protein Design is pleased to announce its new advisory board! Follow the link to our news release for more information on our board members.

  • IPD Mini Symposium – Jan 20 2015

    Our next Mini Symposium will be hosted on Jan 20 2015 and will feature Drs. Bill DeGrado (UCSF) and Gevorg Grigoryan (Dartmouth) speaking on “New Approaches to Protein Design”. More information at this link.

  • Translational Investigator awarded LSDF Matching Grant Award for Celiac Disease Therapy

                Please make a tax deductible donation at this LINK.  IPD Translational Investigator Dr. Ingrid Swanson Pultz was awarded a Matching Grant award of $250K from the Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) for her project ‘In vivo assessment of an oral therapeutic for celiac disease‘! We need…

  • IPD Mini Symposium 2014

    The UW Institute of Protein Design (IPD) presents a Mini Symposium on “Sweet Spots for Designed Proteins as Therapeutics” on Weds Dec 10 at 9 AM in HSB D-209. Follow the link to get more details! We hope to see you there!  

  • Custom design of novel alphahelical bundles

    A new paper is out in this week’s issue of Science entitled High thermodynamic stability of parametrically designed helical bundles. Using novel computational design methods, extremely stable helical bundles can be custom designed with fine-tuned structural geometries for a number of applications. Read more about this exciting work at this…

  • Engineering an Oral Therapeutic for Celiac Disease

    Learn how the IPD and Translational Investigator Dr. Ingrid Swanson Pultz are developing Kumamax, an oral therapeutic candidate for celiac disease. A slide presentation and more information at the link.

  • Targeting Ebola

    The Foldit community to targets Ebola. Click here to learn more. Watch grad student Brian Koepnick and IPD Director David Baker talk about this work on this KOMO TV news segment. See the Seattle Times article here. Make a donation to help us fund our anti-Ebola effort.

  • Hiking the South Peak of The Brothers

    Watch a video documenting a recent hike at The Brothers in the Olympics. IPD scientists, mountain goats, and stellar views – oh my!

  • The Power of Charity for Protein Design

    Read a post about how the power of volunteer computing drives advances in protein design! Learn more at the link.