Founded in 1956 as a private, non-profit basic biomedical research institute

Headed by 1985 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Dr. Herbert Hauptman

Internationally recognized for its structural biology research

Home to the Center for High-Throughput Structural Biology,    
      one of six specializedcenters funded by NIH’s Protein Structure Initiative

Houses the University of Buffalo’s Department of Structural Biology

Pioneered the development of new crystallization and computational techniques
      to speed high-resolution structure determination