Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
Guided by its motto, The Cures Begin Here, the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI) creates novel strategies and technologies to promote the understanding, prevention and treatment of many human diseases.
Examples of current projects involve AIDS, arthritis, cancer, cardiovascular disease, cystic fibrosis, and the transmission of emergent diseases from animals to humans.
Founded in 1956 as the Medical Foundation of Buffalo, the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (renamed in 1994) came into existence through the combined efforts of Dr. George F. Koepf who provided the vision and Helen Woodward Rivas who provided generous financial support. Dr. George F. Koepf was a physician and endocrinologist whose interest in research began during his second year at medical school and continued at John Hopkins University.
After leaving Johns Hopkins, he returned to practice medicine in Buffalo and became a founding member of the Buffalo Medical Group. One of his patients, Helen Woodward Rivas expressed great interest in funding a medical research effort in Buffalo. Through her $3 million gift, the Medical Foundation (MFB) came into being.
The first site of MFB was a carriage house located at the corner of 1014 Delaware Avenue and W. Utica Street. In 1960, plans were in progress to expand these facilities when a fire ravaged the entire building. Although the event was devastating, most of the research records were salvaged, and a new four-story building was constructed at 73 High Street with the help of matching funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This new research facility opened in 1963.
In 1999, a three-year $1.5 million challenge grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation, coupled with a $750,000 award from the Margaret L. Wendt Foundation and support from many others, made the establishment of a Structural Biology Center at HWI possible.
As the University at Buffalo and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute began plans to construct new facilities, HWI joined with our collaborative partners to form the Buffalo Life Sciences Complex. Located in the heart of the BNMC, HWI was able to select a site adjacent to the UB and RPCI sites for our new building. We retained Cannon Design and architect Mehrdad Yazdani to design a research and office complex that supported our collaborative and open culture.
Construction of our new Structural Biology Research Center began in August 2003, through the support of New York State, the Federal Government, local foundations, community leaders, and individuals, as well as financing through KeyBank. We moved into our new facility in April 2005, and we have since recruited four additional young scientists to our facility.
The Hauptman-Woodward Institute is an independent, not-for-profit, biomedical research facility. It is the host Institute for:
-Structural Biology Dept. of UB
-Center for High Throughput Structural Biology
-American Crystallographic Association
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www.hwi.buffalo.edu/
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
700 Ellicott Street
Buffalo, New York 14203-1102
Tel: 716 898 8600
Fax: 716 898 8660
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