Institute for Protein Design

The global epicenter of de novo design, pioneering open-source architectures like RFdiffusion and ProteinMPNN.

Country: United States

Coverage

	CN	EU	US
foundries-design	✓	✓	✓

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Verifiable facts

Fact	Value	Source
Partnership	University of Washington (affiliated/housed within School of Medicine)	research.washington.edu
Research focus	de novo protein design, computational biomolecular design, vaccine and therapeutic development, self-assembling nanostructures, enzyme engineering, and artificial intelligence for protein modeling	research.washington.edu · ipd.uw.edu
Facility	Core R&D Labs, including labs for protein production, peptide synthesis, electron/light microscopy, X-ray crystallography, and process development	ipd.uw.edu
Grant	$33M annual research budget; $7M grant from Washington Research Foundation (2026)	firstwordpharma.com · ipd.uw.edu
Publications	50+ scientific publications per year; 100+ patents issued	ipd.uw.edu
Principal staff	David Baker (Director)	research.washington.edu · ipd.uw.edu
Headcount	250+ total members (as of 2023)	ipd.uw.edu

Independent sources: firstwordpharma.com · ipd.uw.edu · research.washington.edu

Technologies

Name	Cluster	Risk
Generative protein design	foundries-design	Medium	→

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