The investigation results provide many insights into how these molecular machines work, including the starting points for the design of better drugs.Koepf was a physician and endocrinologist whose interest in research began during his second year at medical school and continued at Johns Hopkins University.One of his patients, Helen Woodward Rivas, expressed great interest in funding a medical research effort in Buffalo.All aspects of structural research from isolating the gene that codes for a protein of interest to applying the latest crystallographic methods are now possible here.Before joining HWI, Dr. Snell was a staff scientist in NASA’s Structural Biology Laboratory at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.