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Layton Smith Wins Florida Grant
Layton Smith, associate director of pharmacology at Scripps Florida’s Department of Drug Discovery, has been awarded a James & Esther King Biomedical Research grant from the Florida Department of Health—the State of Florida’s first research grant to Scripps Florida. The three-year grant, awarded on the basis of scientific merit, will fund a project entitled, “The interaction between apelin and the rennin-angiotensin-aldosterone system. “

Young Soo Kim Awarded KUSCO/KSEA Scholarship
Young Soo Kim, a graduate student in the Janda lab, has won a Korea-U.S. Science Cooperation Center / Korean-American Scientists and Engineering Association Scholarship, which includes a cash prize and travel fees to a conference in New York in August, where he will receive the award. He is currently working on cancer therapy and anti-warfare agent studies.

Fundraising Event: “An Intimate Evening with Craig Chaquico”
A dinner and concert by musician Craig Chaquico will be held Sunday, August 13, from 6 to 10 PM to benefit the Molly Baber Research Fund at Scripps Research, which supports investigations on the latest technologies to advance genomic medicine in transplantation. Craig Chaquico, well known to many as the lead guitarist and principle songwriter for Jefferson Airplane/Starship, has 20 gold records to his name. Tickets to the elegant event, which will be held at the Bernardo Heights Country Club, California, range from $175 to $275 per person (discounts for a table of 10). For more information, visit the event web page or contact Elliot Wolf, elliotw@scripps.edu or (858) 784-2721.

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Ribbon-Cutting Celebrates Robotics Facility
Seth Berkley, president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative  (IAVI), cuts the ribbon for Scripps Research’s new robotics crystallization facility at 3040 Science Park Drive. IAVI helped fund the project because of its potential for solving structures related to the effort to create an HIV vaccine. For more information, see News&Views story “Structures on the Fast Track.”(Photo by Skip O’Donnell.)

Masserini Charitable Trust/Wells Fargo Supports Science Outreach Program
Scripps Research's Education Outreach Program received a $10,000 grant from the Masserini Charitable Trust to fund four local students in the La Jolla campus's 2006 High School Student Research Education Program. The grant is administered by Wells Fargo Bank, a long-time supporter of outreach activities at the institute. Here, program director Marisela Chevez accepts the check at an awards ceremony hosted by M. David Schmutz, Wells Fargo vice president of private client services.