Primetime

In 1977, the research arm of SCRF became the Research Institute of Scripps Clinic, and Frank Dixon was named its first director. According to the figures released by the NIH in 1985, the institute was one of the largest private, non-profit biomedical research centers in the nation in terms of support from federal research grants. The development of the anti-leukemia drug 2-CdA, which now cures or produces many years of freedom from hairy cell leukemia in almost all those receiving treatment, was among the first major scientific and medical achievements to come out of the institute. Above is an aerial view of the Torrey Pines Mesa in 1988.