BUFFALO, NY, February 6, 2003 - - - - - The Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute has received grant awards from both the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo for $45,000 and the Cameron Baird Foundation for $30,000 to purchase an Isothermal Titration Colorimeter. This collaborative grant award has brought together these two local foundations, the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, a HWI supporter since 1975 and the Cameron Baird Foundation, a first time HWI supporter, allowing a new, vital resource to be acquired.

This new equipment will allow HWI scientists to study protein-protein interactions and the binding of small molecules, such as drugs, to large protein molecules. This equipment is currently be used in several studies of cancer-related drug targets and will also serve as a powerful tool in HWI's structure-based drug discovery program. Together, these two foundations have provided HWI scientists with a state-of-the-art piece of equipment that will help to advance our drug design program and allow us to initiate exciting new research studies.

Established in 1919, the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo is one of the oldest Community Foundations in the U.S. and was the first in New York State. The Cameron Baird Foundation, established in Buffalo in 1960, has always been an avid supporter of cultural organizations throughout Western New York.

A Western New York center for basic biomedical research since 1956, the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute is a world-renowned, independent, non-profit facility located in the heart of the newly emerging Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. Our basic research mission is two-fold; committing ourselves to improving the health of people for generations to come by studying the causes of diseases at their basic molecular level and working to educate the scientists of tomorrow.