AI Drug Discovery Tool Gets $2.18 Million Federal Grant
A University at Buffalo researcher received funding to create SWAXSFold, an AI tool to improve protein structure prediction.
A researcher at the University at Buffalo has received a $2.18 million federal grant to create an AI-powered tool for drug discovery, the university announced on September 22, 2025. The tool, called SWAXSFold, aims to improve upon the protein structure prediction capabilities of models like AlphaFold, which won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
## Improving on a Nobel Prize-Winning Idea
While AlphaFold predicts a protein's likely structure from its amino acid sequence, SWAXSFold is designed to integrate experimental data directly into the AI prediction process. The tool uses data from a technique called small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering …
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