diff --git a/ippisite/ippidb/ws.py b/ippisite/ippidb/ws.py
index 2cf9ecb8284f04e24e01958cde21fafc54f3dcf9..422a5219ab38cde7844249ba0962e58ca891e3f2 100644
--- a/ippisite/ippidb/ws.py
+++ b/ippisite/ippidb/ws.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 from bioservices.eutils import EUtils
+from bioservices.uniprot import UniProt
+from xml.etree.ElementTree import register_namespace
 import requests
 
 def get_pubmed_info(pmid):
@@ -32,3 +34,12 @@ def get_epo_info(patent_number):
             'journal_name': None,
             'biblio_year': biblio_year,
             'authors_list': authors}
+
+def get_uniprot_info(uniprot_id):
+    uniprot_client = Uniprot()
+    resp = uniprot_client.retrieve(uniprot_id)
+    recommended_name = res.root.findall('{http://uniprot.org/uniprot}entry/{http://uniprot.org/uniprot}protein/{http://uniprot.org/uniprot}recommendedName/{http://uniprot.org/uniprot}fullName')[0].text
+    organism = res.root.findall('{http://uniprot.org/uniprot}entry/{http://uniprot.org/uniprot}organism/{http://uniprot.org/uniprot}dbReference[@type="NCBI Taxonomy"]/@id')
+    return {'recommended_name': recommended_name,
+            'organism': organism
+           }