Faculty Promotions Announced

Faculty promotions were announced at a recent meeting of The Scripps Research Institute Board of Trustees.

They included:

Wolfram Ruf, who was promoted to professor in the Department of Immunology. Ruf (M.D., University of Giessen, Germany; Ph.D., Max-Planck-Society) joined Scripps Research in 1988. His research focuses on proteins and signaling mechanisms involved in blood coagulation, angiogenesis, and inflammation in order to understand thrombophilia, hemophilia, cancer, and inflammatory diseases like sepsis. For more information, see News&Views article "Mysteries of a Therapy Unveiled" or the Ruf lab web site.

Freidbert Weiss, who was promoted to professor in the Department of Neuropharmacology. Weiss (B.A., University of San Francisco; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) joined Scripps Research in 1986. His laboratory investigates the neurobiology of addictive disorders, focusing on understanding brain neurocircuitry as well as the neurochemical and molecular mechanisms that mediate the addictive effects of drugs of abuse, contribute to the development of dependence, and convey vulnerability to relapse. For more information, see News&Views article "Persistent Memories of Cocaine" or Weiss’s faculty web page.

Charles Surh, who was promoted to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Immunology. Surh (B.A., University of California San Diego; Ph.D., University of California, Davis) joined Scripps Research in 1989. His laboratory studies how naive and memory T cells develop and survive under normal physiological conditions. For more information see News&Views article "T Cell Selection and Maintenance" or the Surh lab web site.

Clare Waterman-Storer, who was promoted to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Cell Biology. Waterman-Storer (B.A., Mount Holyoke College; M.S., University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) joined Scripps Research in 1999. Her lab uses state-of-the-art light microscopy of living cells to elucidate how interactions between the cytoskeleton, membrane transport, and adhesion machines of the cell contribute to the orchestration of complex changes in cellular morphology that drive directed cell motility during metastasis and wound healing. For more information, see News&Views article "Microscopy of Live Cells in Motion" or the Waterman-Storer lab web site.

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