The university will match the grant with additional renovations, new faculty and student research positions. It is also gratifying to have one of our leading research centers recognized on a national level for its advanced work. The new equipment is essential to the IMD's continued groundbreaking efforts and research into the biochemical basis for human disease.
Human diseases are often the result of biochemistry gone awry.
The new equipment will substantially upgrade the university's existing NMR and X-ray facilities and will enhance our ability to make macromolecular structure determinations of the proteins responsible for antibiotic resistance and the DNA responsible for inherited disease. The W. M. Keck Foundation was established in 1954 by William Myron Keck , founder of the Superior Oil Company. The foundation's grantmaking is focused primarily on the areas of science, engineering, medical research and higher education. The W.M. Keck Foundation is pleased to make this award to the University of Houston in recognition of its outstanding work in the field of biomedical research. UH researchers currently use the university's X-ray and NMR facilities, as well as equipment housed at the W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology in the Texas Medical Center, to study diseases such as tuberculosis and cancer, and genetic disorders such as Huntington's Disease.