Letter from the President

Thanks to our faculty, staff, students, postdocs, supporters and friends of the Institute, 2016 proved to be another incredibly productive and eventful year for The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI).

This year alone, our talented team of scientists generated breakthrough advances in the areas of cancer, diabetes, HIV, and neurodegenerative and autoimmune disorders, to name a few. TSRI faculty also picked up a number of awards: including Kristin Baldwin’s Pioneer Award, Jin-Quan Yu’s MacArthur Fellowship, Phil Baran’s Blavatnik National Award, Courtney Miller’s Presidential Early Career Award, Katrin Karbstein’s scholarship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ian Wilson’s election to the National Academy of Sciences and James Paulson and Ardem Patapoutian’s elections to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

We graduated our 600^th student from the internationally-ranked TSRI Graduate Program this spring, and our efforts to train and prepare the next generation of scientists continued to expand with the establishment of a joint PhD program with Tsinghua University.

Another exciting development was the formalization of our affiliation with the California Institute for Biomedical Research (Calibr), which integrates TSRI’s basic scientific research with Calibr’s translational research capabilities. This innovative model is designed to accelerate the development of new medicines and become a self-sustaining funding source for non-profit research.

These accomplishments would not have been possible without your hard work. Your ongoing dedication enables TSRI’s pioneering research to advance our understanding of life-threatening diseases, speed delivery of new medicines and, ultimately, deliver a cure.

You have my heartfelt thanks this holiday season, and I wish you a wonderful new year.

Pete Schultz
President, TSRI

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“Your ongoing dedication enables TSRI’s pioneering research to advance our understanding of life-threatening diseases, speed delivery of new medicines and, ultimately, deliver a cure.”
—Peter Schultz

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