UW institute run by Nobel winner lands ‘transformational’ cloud grant from Huang foundation

A large, symmetrical protein created by researchers at the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design. (IPD / Benedicte Rossi Image) The UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design (IPD) has announced a giant grant of computing power from the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation, supercharging its research into new protein discovery. “We have made more rapid progress on methods development than any time in my career,” said David Baker, director of the IPD and a 2024 Nobel laureate in chemistry.