Latest posts
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Letter from the Director – IPD Update
Read a letter from Institute for Protein Design Director Dr. David Baker summarizing the exciting accomplishments and progress made at the IPD in the past year.
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July IPD News Roundup
This July, IPD staff and scientists ventured outdoors for a conference and for some fun adventures. Learn more at the link.
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June IPD News Roundup
June at the IPD welcomed some new team members and saw some exciting new publications! Learn more here.
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Designer Proteins to Target Cancer Cells
What if scientists could design a completely new protein that is precision-tuned to bind and inhibit cancer-causing proteins in the body? Collaborating scientists at the UW Institute for Protein Design (IPD) and Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute (MolES) have made this idea a reality with the designed protein BINDI. BINDI (BHRF1-INhibiting Design acting Intracellularly) is…
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Accurate Design of Co-Assembling Multi-Component Protein Nanomaterials
A new paper is out in the June 5 issue of Nature entitled Accurate design of co-assembling multi-component protein nanomaterials. Scientists at the Institute for Protein Design (IPD), in collaboration with researchers at UCLA and HHMI, have built upon their previous work constructing single-component protein nanocages and can now design and build self-assembling…
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May IPD News Roundup
May was a busy month at the IPD, with some new publications and exciting announcements! Learn more here.