News & Views Archive

June

• Scientists find potential disease-fighting 'warheads' hidden in bacteria
• Chemists achieve major milestone of synthesis: remote chiral induction
• Scripps Research chemists design 'miniecosystems' to test drug function
• Chemist Keary Engle receives new ACS grant

• Scripps Research ranked top nonprofit scientific institute in United States
• Two-pronged antibodies draw immune killers directly to cancer cells
• Researchers uncover new ‘proofreading’ mechanism in gene translation
• Novel RNA-modifying tool corrects genetic diseases, including driver of triple-negative breast cancer

May

• Tumor-like spheres help scientists discover smarter cancer drugs
• Coding the brain to decode disease
• Autism research to advance with $3.6 million NIH grant to Scripps Florida team
• Scripps Research chemist receives prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Award
• Sherry Lansing, trailblazing studio executive, joins the Board of Directors at The Scripps Research Institute
• John C. Martin, Gilead Chairman, joins the Board of Directors at The Scripps Research Institute
• Ben Shen receives 2018 Charles Thom Award

• Scientists investigate new strategy to treat spinal muscular atrophy in infants
• Wriggling tadpoles may hold clue to how autism develops
• Putting blood pressure on the map—literally
• Launch of All of Us Research Program heralds new era for technology-driven citizen science and precision medicine
• Scripps Translational Science Institute receives $34 million NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award
• Team receives $7.5 million in grants for studies on cocaine, oxycodone addiction
• Scripps Research scientists move forward with work to study opioid alternatives

• Your immune system holds the line against repeat invaders, thanks to this molecule
• Molecule that dilates blood vessels hints at new way to treat heart disease
• Scripps Research scientists receive $12 million for malaria and flu vaccine research

April

• Healthy red blood cells owe their shape to muscle-like structures
• Non-psychoactive cannabis ingredient could help addicts stay clean
• Cancer researchers receive more than $2 million to eradicate common form of leukemia
• Scripps Research discovery paves way for better flu prevention, treatment

• Families facing rare neurological disease drive groundbreaking research
• Long thought to only cause a rare disease, this mutation may ward off malaria
• Calibr's repurposed drug to treat non-viral diarrhea enters into a clinical trial
• Cells stressed out? Make mitochondria longer
• Graduate program at The Scripps Research Institute earns another top ten ranking
• Former Scripps Research postdocs receive prestigious awards
• Srinivasa Subramaniam receives funding to study connection between aging and Huntington’s disease; Keary Engle receives Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award; Danielle Grotjahn receives Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award

March

• Researchers uncover culprit in Parkinson's brain cell die-off
• A new cross-coupling simplifies the synthesis of drug-like molecules
• New research points to better way to treat depression
• TSRI method accelerates studies on carbohydrate biology

• Cross-bred flies reveal new clues about how proteins are regulated
• 'Click chemistry' reactions may boost cancer-fighting drug potency
• Decoding the genome’s dark matter
• TSRI scientists receive $15 million to study viral outbreak survivors
• Next-generation arthritis treatments could benefit both horses and humans
• TSRI scientists win international photo contest

February

• Microscopic chariots deliver molecules within our cells
• Scientists take step toward stopping cancer metastasis
• Video: TSRI researchers bring scattered data together
• Heroin vaccine blocks lethal overdose
• TSRI receives $10 million grant to study effects of alcohol on the brain
• Catherine Cheng receives NEI grant to study cataracts

• Estrogen-mimicking compounds in foods may reduce effectiveness of breast cancer treatment
• TSRI researchers identify gene responsible for mesenchymal stem cells’ stem-ness
• Scripps Translational Science Institute, Nature Research launch open-access digital medicine journal
• Wendy Havran receives AAI Distinguished Service Award; TSRI graduate students receive ARCS scholar awards

January

• Scientists discover workings of first promising Marburg virus treatment
• New structure of key protein holds clues for better drug design
• Chemists discover plausible recipe for early life on Earth
• Novel regenerative drug for osteoarthritis entering clinical trials
• Skaggs family makes “transformational” lead gift toward The Scripps Research Institute’s Graduate Program endowment
• Professor Kirill Martemyanov receives ASPET award; TSRI announces two new faculty promotions

• Dysfunctional gene may be culprit in some Crohn’s disease cases
• Blueprints for anti-cancer drugs discovered in bacterial genomes
• Researchers get first complete look at protein behind sense of touch
• ‘Simple, but powerful’ model reveals mechanisms behind neuron development

Vol. 17 (2017)

December

• Scientists create first semi-synthetic organism that stores and retrieves unnatural information
• Scientists discover possible master switch for programming cancer immunotherapy
• New study sheds light on brain changes facilitating cocaine addiction
• Taurine lends hand to repair cells damaged in multiple sclerosis
• Eric Topol named executive vice president at The Scripps Research Institute
• Jeffery Kelly elected to National Academy of Inventors
• Ardem Patapoutian receives prestigious W. Alden Spencer Award; TSRI chemist Matthew Disney receives Israel Chemical Society’s Barry Cohen Award

• New Chemistry Method Simplifies Late-Stage Modification of Drug Compounds
• To Forget or to Remember? Memory Depends on Subtle Brain Signals, Scientists Find
• Good Cells Gone Bad
• New Findings to Help HIV Scientists Establish ‘Template’ for Potent Antibodies
• The Scripps Research Institute Welcomes Renowned Data Scientist Amalio Telenti
• CONNECT Honors Richard Lerner For Contributions to Life Science Innovation; Graduate Student Murat Kilinc Receives Autism Speaks Fellowship

November

• New Painkillers Reduce Overdose Risk
• High-Res Imaging Reveals How Cells ‘Take Out the Trash’
• A Structural Clue to Attacking Malaria’s ‘Achilles Heel’
• Potential New Autism Drug Shows Promise in Mice
• Ozanimod Successful in Clinical Trials for Multiple Sclerosis

• Scientists Find Potential “Missing Link” in Chemistry That Led to Life on Earth
• Researchers Discover Promising New Anticancer Strategy
• How Flu Shot Manufacturing Forces Influenza to Mutate
• Researchers Find Protein that Could Help Fight Antibiotic Resistance
• Pushing the Limits of Lower-Cost Electron Microscopes, with Incredible Results
• Matthew Disney Named Scripps Florida Outstanding Mentor

• New Research Opens the Door to ‘Functional Cure’ for HIV
• ‘Double Decker’ Antibody Technology Fights Cancer
• Scientists Develop Broad-Spectrum Inhibitors of Influenza Viruses
• Scripps Florida Scientists Share $9 Million Grant to Develop Therapies that Target the Aging Process
• TSRI’s Benjamin Cravatt Elected to National Academy of Medicine
• Gabriel Ozorowski Wins Mathilde Krim Fellowship; Sandelman Travel Award Winners Announced; John Yates III and Gary Siuzdak Named to The Analytical Scientist’s Top 10

• HIVE Center Receives $27 Million in NIGMS Funding to Advance HIV Research
• Keary Engle Named TSRI Outstanding Mentor for 2017
• A New Approach to Cancer Drug Discovery
• TSRI Researchers Explore Ways That a Drug Like Avandia Can Be Made Safer

• TSRI Study Reveals New Clues to How a Successful HIV Vaccine Could Work
• Scripps Florida Scientist Awarded $2.5 Million Collaborative Grant to Develop New Diabetes Treatment
• Calibr and TSRI Executive Matt Tremblay Receives Biocom Catalyst Award
• Jeffrey Rudolf Receives (K99/R00) NIH Career Transition Award
• Scott Henderson Joins TSRI as Director of Microscopy Core Facility

• TSRI Researchers Find a Way to Combat Pharmacoterrorism
• TSRI Chemist Keary Engle Receives NIH’s Outstanding Investigator Award
• TSRI Adds New Faculty to World-Class Institute
• New TSRI Research Reveals Pathway for Anti-Aging Therapies

August

• Protein Profiling Method Reveals Many Potential New Drug Targets
• TSRI Scientist Wins Prestigious Young Investigator Award
• TSRI Awarded $11 Million Grant Renewal by NIAID for Long-Running Study of Immunity, Inflammation
• TSRI Chemists Develop Inexpensive, Versatile Technique for Making RNA

• TSRI Ranks No. 1 in Innovation Influence
• Scripps Florida Scientists Identify Protein Deficiency Involved in Childhood Anemia and Cancers
• One Cytokine To Control Multiple Cytokines

• NIH-supported scientists elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies to HIV in calves
• Scripps Florida Scientists Awarded $2 Million to Develop ‘Industrial Level’ Screening for Treatments of Autism-Related Intellectual Disability
• Exercise Performance in Mice Depends on Circadian Rhythms

• Scripps Florida Scientist and Collaborators Win $7 Million Grant to Develop New ALS Treatments
• San Diego Team Tests Best Delivery Mode for Potential HIV Vaccine
• Firefly Gene Illuminates Ability of Optimized CRISPR-Cpf1 to Efficiently Edit Human Genome

• TSRI Anti-Heroin Vaccine Found Effective in Non-Human Primates
• Influenza Virus Can Overcome Potentially Crippling Mutations
• Scripps Florida Scientist Wins $2 Million Grant to Study Childhood Disorder Linked to Behavioral Problems

• Perseverance Pays Off in Fight Against Deadly Lassa Virus
• Scientists Jump Hurdle in HIV Vaccine Design
• New Antibiotic Packs a Punch Against Bacterial Resistance
• Matthew Disney Named Finalist for Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists

• Zika Reached Miami at Least Four Times, Caribbean Travel Likely Responsible
• Scientists Find Simple Copper Complex Shuts Down Botulinum Neurotoxin Poisoning
• The Scripps Research Institute Appoints Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. CEO Joel Marcus to Board of Directors
• New Equipment at Scripps Florida Will Advance Drug Discovery
• TSRI Postdoc Awarded ASPET Fellowship

• The Scripps Research Institute Celebrates Historic 25th Commencement Ceremony
• Scientific Trailblazers to Address Historic Graduating Class at TSRI
• This Virus Could Make for a Useful Gene-Delivery Tool

• Scientists Solve Major Cancer Protein Conundrum
• Three San Diego Researchers Honored by Royal Society of Chemistry
• Postdoc Open Mic Night Brings Together Scientists from Industry and Academia
• TSRI Graduate Students Honored by ARCS

• At Last, a Clue to Where Cancer Metastases Are Born
• Scientists Unravel How Protein Impacts Intellectual Disability
• Two TSRI Scientists Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
• Bessie Huang Gilula
  1945–2017
• SoF Announces Spring Travel Award Winners

• Massive Chromosome Fusions? Neurons Don’t Care
• Broad Advance from TSRI Chemists Dramatically Simplifies Olefin Synthesis
• Closer Look at Brain Circuits Reveals Important Role of Genetics
• Alexander Price Awarded K25 Grant to Advance Drug Discovery Technology; FL Volunteers Pitch In at Earth Day Cleanup!

• Chemists Devise Simple Method for Making Sought-After Boronic Acid-Based Drugs and Other Products
• Surprising Brain Change Appears to Drive Alcohol Dependence
• Making the Most of a Postdoctoral Position

• New Approach Makes Cells Resistant to HIV
• Scientist Awarded $4.8 Million to Bring HIV Vaccine Closer to Human Trials
• Lucy Lin Joins Growing List of TSRI Graduate Students Honored with Prestigious Scholarship
• Jeffery Kelly Receives Chemical Pioneer Award • Kim Janda Featured at Clinton Foundation Health Matters Summit • David Goodsell Receives People’s Choice Award from NSF and Popular Science

• Researchers Discover a Signal Driving Type 1 Diabetes
• Scientists Develop New Method to 'Fingerprint' HIV
• The Scripps Research Institute Expands New Board of Directors with the Appointment of Yucaipa Companies Founder and Philanthropist Ron Burkle
• Barbara Mason Receives R. Brinkley Smithers Distinguished Scientist Award; Benjamin Cravatt Wins ACS Chemical Biology Lectureship Award

• A Molecular On/Off Switch for CRISPR
• Scientists Discover New Class of Anti-Diabetes Compounds that Reduce Liver Glucose Production
• Philip Dawson Named Dean of The Scripps Research Institute’s Graduate Program
• TSRI Students Win Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

March

• These Two Molecules Appear to Drive Breast Cancer Drug Resistance
• Mobile Technology Shakes Up Pregnancy Research
• Scripps Florida’s Network for Women in Science Welcomes Max Planck Florida to Group
• Kudos: Nobuyoshi Suto Awarded Grant to Develop Method for Exploring Drug Relapse Treatment

• Potential Drug Candidates Halt Prostate and Breast Cancer Growth
• Scripps Florida Scientists Develop New Drug Delivery Method for Cancer Therapy
• Snapshot: Teal Smith and Michael Cendejas

• In the Battle for Real Estate, a Disordered Protein Wins Out
• New Enzyme-Like Tool Lets Chemists Modify Hard-to-Reach Spots on Drug Molecules
• Fighting Blindness: Scientists Bring a Key Protein into Focus
• In Memoriam: Bruce Cunningham

• Scientists Take Aim at Obesity-Linked Protein
• Researchers Find Standard Pacemakers and Defibrillators Safe for MRI Using a New Protocol
• TSRI-Invented Compound Ozanimod Shows Positive Results in Late-Stage Clinical Trial for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis

February

• The Scripps Research Institute Announces New Board Members and Chairman of the Board
• Researchers Discover How the Brain Turns Chronic Stress into Pathological Anxiety
• Scripps Florida Collaboration Awarded $3.3 Million to Develop Next-Generation Breast Cancer Therapies
• Watching the Clock: A Profile of Katja Lamia
• TSRI’s Science Saturday Program Inspires Students to Explore STEM Careers
• Andrew Ward Receives 2017 Viruses Young Investigator in Virology Prize

• Scientists Find Clue to Why Zika, But Not Its Close Relatives, Causes Birth Defects
• Chemists Unveil Versatile New Method for Making Chiral Drug Molecules
• Snapshot: Samantha Spierling
• Mark Sundrud Receives CCFA Grant; Erica Ollmann Saphire Receives Richard M. Elliott Memorial Award

• Scientists Find Brain Hormone that Triggers Fat Burning
• New Study Shows Early Brain Changes in Fragile X Syndrome
• Deep Brain Stimulation Blocks Heroin Relapse in Rats
• Breakthrough Discoveries Inside a TSRI Stem Cell Lab
• Benjamin Cravatt Named 2017 Winner of the Robert M. Scarborough Award

January

• Scientists Create First Stable Semisynthetic Organism
• New Method Could Turbocharge Drug Discovery, Protein Research
• Team Awarded $1.8 Million Grant to Develop Drugs for Heart Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Jeanne Loring to Join International Parkinson’s Research Group

• Scientists Discover Master Regulator of Cellular Aging
• Researchers Discover Surprising Process Behind Sense of Touch
• Uncovering the Cellular Process Behind Premature Aging
• Scientists Expand Toolbox to Study Cellular Function

• Scientists Uncover Potential Driver of Age- and Alzheimer’s-Related Memory Loss
• A New Discovery Approach to Predict Health Impact of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals
• An Exciting Step Toward Mapping How the Brain Stores Memories
• Researchers Uncover New Way to Defeat Therapy-Resistant Prostate Cancer
• Julius Rebek, Jr. Elected to The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Kudos to CA ScrippsAssists!

• TSRI Scientists Show How Drug Binds with 'Hidden Pocket' on Flu Virus
• Scripps Florida Scientists Discover New Natural Source of Potent Anti-Cancer Drugs
• TSRI Study: Protein Monitors Lung Volume and Regulates Breathing
• Scripps Florida Scientist Awarded $5 Million Outstanding Investigator Grant to Study the Biology of Memory
• A Love of Structure Shapes a Life in Science
• Thomas Kodadek Elected NAI Fellow; TSRI Graduate Students Receive ARCS Scholar Awards

Vol. 16 (2016)

December

• 'Western' Maternal Diet Appears to Raise Obesity Risk in Offspring
• TSRI Scientists Devise New Approaches to Personalized Medicines
• Ancient Enzyme Morphed Shape to Carry Out New Functions in Humans
• TSRI Scientists Work to Revive Species in 'Frozen Zoo'
• Letter from the President

• Scientists Develop Vaccine Against Fatal Prescription Opioid Overdose
• Researchers Identify Novel Compound to Alleviate Pain and Itch While Avoiding Common Side Effects
• Found: A Mechanism Behind Side Effects in Vision-Loss Treatment
• Snapshot: Sherri Briggs
• Matthew Disney Receives New Grant to Investigate Myotonic Dystrophy and ALS

• Scientists Find Surprising Answers to 'Food Coma' Conundrum
• New Clues to Altered Brain Wiring in Autism
• Scientists Create Innovative Drug Design Strategy to Improve Breast Cancer Treatment
• Graduate Symposium Engages and Inspires
• James Paulson and Ardem Patapoutian Elected AAAS Fellows

November

• Researchers Show How Circadian 'Clock' May Influence Cancer Pathway
• Immune Cells May Facilitate Tumor Growth by Forming Primitive Vascular Channels
• Scientists Pinpoint Regulator of Amphetamine-Induced Motor Activity
• Scientists Discover How Protein Senses Touch
• TSRI Commuters Earn Top Honors

• What Does It Take to Make a Memory? Study Says New Proteins
• Farris Foundation Donates $1.1 Million to Fund TSRI Graduate Fellowship in Florida
• Scientists Awarded $6.6 Million for Research in Computational Biology
• In Memoriam: Daniel R. Salomon (1953 – 2016)
• Marisa Roberto Wins Society for Neuroscience Award

• Study Suggests Ebola Can Adapt to Better Target Human Cells
• Scientists Identify Protein Behind Immune System 'Shut Down'
• Team Develops New Toolkit for Exploring Protein Biology
• 7 Tips for Better Scientific Manuscripts
• SoF Announces Fall Travel Award Winners

October

• Team Uncovers Why Hepatitis C Virus Vaccine Has Been Difficult to Make
• Researchers Illuminate Key Molecular Player in Both Morphine Addiction and Rare Disease
• Scientists Awarded $4.6 Million for Hepatitis C Vaccine Research
• Derek Duckett Named Scripps Florida 2016 Outstanding Mentor
• FL ResearchFest Congratulates Poster and Presentation Winners

• TSRI and Calibr Sign Strategic Affiliation to Accelerate the Development of New Medicines
• International Team Unveils First Atomic-Level Image of the Human 'Marijuana Receptor'
• Scientists Uncover New Facets of Zika-Related Birth Defects to Help Develop Treatment
• Oldstone, Sullivan Labs Receive Additional $1.5 Million to Study Ebola, Lassa Fever Virus; Sandelman Travel Award Winners Announced

• Scientists Use ‘Molecular Autopsies’ to Find Clues to Sudden Death
• Decoding Emotions and the Brain: A Profile of Lisa Stowers
• Team Awarded Special Grant to Develop Memory-Altering Medication for Addiction
• Hollis Cline to Speak on ‘Training Our Brain Cells’ at ResearcHERS Public Lecture October 26

• Grant to TSRI-Led Consortium Expands to $207 Million
• Slideshow: TSRI Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Skaggs Institute
• Scripps Florida Scientists Identify Potent New Anti-Obesity, Anti-Diabetes Target
• Two New Grants Fund Exploration of 'Click Chemistry' Applications
• Kristin Baldwin Wins NIH Pioneer Award

• News from the Primordial World
• Chemists Report Foundational New Chemical Reaction
• From Intern to Biologist
• Peter Schultz Wins Prestigious Heinrich Wieland Prize; Faculty Promotions: Philip Dawson, Ian MacRae, Kirill Martemyanov, Enrique Saez; Peter Vogt Receives Lifetime Achievement Award; Celebrating Postdocs at TSRI

September

• TSRI Chemist Jin-Quan Yu Wins MacArthur Fellowship
• Findings Illuminate How Mystery MS Drug Works
• Study Suggests Disordered Protein 'Shape Shifts' to Avoid Crowding
• Ashok Deniz Named Outstanding Mentor
• Katrin Karbstein Named HHMI Faculty Scholar; Kim Janda Receives ACS National Award; Gerald Chun Wins Courage and Hope Award; Melissa Simon Wins NCI Research Specialist Award

• Study Suggests Repurposed Deworming Drugs Could Combat C. Difficile Epidemic
• Team Discovers Antibodies that Target Holes in HIV's Defenses
• Scientists Win $2 Million to Identify Potential New Treatments for Schizophrenia and Depression

• Team Harnesses Antibody Evolution on the Path to an AIDS Vaccine
• New Method Makes Building 'One-Handed' Drugs Easier than Ever
• Team Reverses Alcohol Dependence in Animal Models
• Researchers Shed New Light on the Role of Calcium in Learning and Memory
• Study Supports Strategy of Series of Shots to Vaccinate Against AIDS
• Roy Smith Looks Ahead
• 'Audacious Goals' Initiative Funds Work by Hollis Cline and Colleagues; TSRI Receives International Life Sciences Award; Loring Lab Hosts Bill Walton

August

• Scientists Take Big Step Toward Recreating Primordial 'RNA World' of Four Billion Years Ago
• Researchers Find Potential Treatment for 'Painful Blindness' Form of Dry Eye
• Study Supports New Strategy to Fight Cocaine Addiction
• Researchers Find ‘Lead Actors’ in Immune Cell Development
• Team Finds 'Missing Evolutionary Link' of a Widely Used Natural Drug Source
• Sun, Science and SURF
• Marisa Roberto Receives MERIT Award; Susana Valente Wins Campbell Foundation Grant; TSRI Community Celebrates Eng Tan’s 90th Birthday

• Team Pinpoints Ebola’s Weak Spots
• New Study Shines Light on Mutations Responsible for Debilitating Heart Conditions
• Found: A Potential New Way to Sway the Immune System
• TSRI and NIH Scientists Show Molecule in Brain May Drive Cocaine Addiction
• TSRI Welcomes 2016 Class of Graduate Students
• Kudos: Schultz Lab Reunion Celebrates 30+ Years of Science; Izard Lab Receives $1.6 Million Grant Renewal; Bannister Lab Receives Funding to Develop New PTSD Treatments

• Asking the Hard Questions: A Profile of Xiang-Lei Yang
• New Drug Candidate Could Treat Both Type 2 Diabetes and Bone Loss
• Team Finds Potential Drug Candidates that Could Intervene in Deadly Diseases
• Scientists Receive Funding to Advance Stem Cell-Based Parkinson’s Therapy

July

• TSRI Awarded $20M for First Year of US Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program
• Tendon, Heal Thyself!
• Scientists Link Bipolar Disorder to Unexpected Brain Region
• Putting Marketing Tools to Work in Science
• Jennifer Crosby-Meurisse Joins TSRI as VP of Human Resources
• George Koob Awarded France's Highest Civil Honor; Yiyang See and Marcus Farmer Receive BMS Fellowships

• Team Reveals Single-Neuron Gene Landscape of the Human Brain
• Scientists Find New Cancer Drug Target in Dual-Function Protein
• Researchers Stabilize HIV Structure, Design Potential AIDS Vaccine Candidates
• In Memoriam: Loren "Larry" Parsons
  (1964 – 2016)
• Phil Baran Selected Blavatnik National Award Winner; Daniel Salomon Receives AST Investigator Award; Robert Laprairie Ranks First in CIHR Fellowship Competition

• New TSRI Method Opens Door to Development of Many New Medicines
• Discovered: a New Protein Crucial to Normal Forgetting
• Scientists Create Compound that Erases Disease-Causing RNA Defects
• New HIV-Mimicking Particles Could Advance AIDS Vaccine
• Team Awarded $1.3 Million to Optimize Chemical Probes to Test Innovative Approach to Cancer
• TSRI Receives Top ‘4-Star’ Charity Navigator Rating; Jeffery Kelly Selected to Receive Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award; Erica Ollmann Saphire Wins Microbiology Society Research Award; Kristian Andersen Named Pew Scholar; Anna Phan Wins Early-Career Fellowship

• New TSRI Method Opens Door to Development of Many New Medicines
• Discovered: a New Protein Crucial to Normal Forgetting
• Scientists Create Compound that Erases Disease-Causing RNA Defects
• New HIV-Mimicking Particles Could Advance AIDS Vaccine
• Team Awarded $1.3 Million to Optimize Chemical Probes to Test Innovative Approach to Cancer
• TSRI Receives Top ‘4-Star’ Charity Navigator Rating; Jeffery Kelly Selected to Receive Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award; Erica Ollmann Saphire Wins Microbiology Society Research Award; Kristian Andersen Named Pew Scholar; Anna Phan Wins Early-Career Fellowship

• Skaggs Family Gives $2 Million for New TSRI Graduate Program Endowment
• Harnessing Nature's Vast Array of Venoms for Drug Discovery
• Scientists Show Commonly Prescribed Painkiller Slows Cancer Growth
• Discovered: Mechanism that Turns Mutant Cells into Aggressive Cancers
• Researchers Show Experience Plays Powerful Role in Early Brain Circuit Development
• TSRI Appoints Richard King as Chief Operating Officer
• Graduate Students Lead the Way at Saturday Science
• Matt Disney, Phil Baran Named Finalists for Blavatnik Awards; Jeffrey Rudolf Wins Beckman Fellowship; Painting a New View of Zika

May

• TSRI Celebrates 24th Commencement
• Researchers Pioneer a Breakthrough Approach to Breast Cancer Treatment
• Commencement Remarks: Lessons for the Future
• Class of '16
• Faculty Promotions: Lisa Stowers, Anton Maximov; Photo: Courtney Miller Honored at White House; Raymond Pauszek Receives NIH Research Award

• Scientists Design Potent Therapeutic 'Warheads' That Target Cancer Cells
• Team Streamlines Biomedical Research by Making Genetic Data Easier to Search
• Grant Advances Development of RNA-Based Therapeutics
• Scripps Florida NWiS Revitalized
• Jeffery Kelly Wins Royal Society of Chemistry Award; George Campbell Receives Dorris Neuroscience Travel Grant

• 'An Excellent Time for Neuroscience': An Interview with Hollis Cline
• Scientists Find Root Cause of Appetite Loss During Illness
• In Memoriam: C. David Stout (1947 – 2016)
• Ian Wilson Elected to National Academy of Sciences; TSRI Infographic, Video Win Gold in Hermes Awards

• New Method Enlists Electricity for Easier, Cheaper, Greener Chemistry
• Scientists Reveal Secrets of a Deadly Virus Family
• Team Predicts Cell Changes that Affect Breast Cancer Growth
• TSRI, Harvard, Stanford and Brandeis Collaborate to Study MicroRNA’s Role in Memory, Sleep and Synapse Function
• New Grant to Support Faster Imaging of Cellular Machinery; Stephanie Sillivan Receives Pathway to Independence Award; Richard Brust Wins NIH Fellowship; William Guerrant Wins ACS Fellowship

April

• Wellderly Study Suggests Link Between Genes that Protect Brain Health and Overall Healthy Aging
• New Molecule-Building Method Opens Up Vast Realm of Chemistry for Pharma and Other Industries
• In Memoriam: Anna Owensby (1990 – 2016)
• Donna Blackmond, Benjamin Cravatt, Jeffery Kelly Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Golfers Tee Up for Scripps Florida Cancer Research Challenge; SoF Announces Travel Award Winners

• Scientists Get First-Ever Glimpse of ‘Teenage’ HIV-Neutralizing Antibody
• Study Identifies Memory Suppressor Gene That Could Hold Key to New Alzheimer’s Disease Treatments
• Immune Cell Transforms from 'Clark Kent' to 'Superman'
• New Project Helps Researchers Build a Biomedical Knowledgebase
• Yanqiao Chen, Benjamin Huffman, Colby Sandate Win NSF Graduate Fellowships; Balyn Zaro Receives Cancer Society Fellowship; TSRI ARCS Scholars Honored

• Scientists Discover 'Outlier' Enzymes that Could Offer New Targets to Treat Diabetes, Inflammation
• Perfecting a Viral Pack Mule
• Facing an Opioid Epidemic
• Team Awarded $3.4 Million to Develop Novel Treatments for Drug Addiction, Mood Disorders

March

• New Findings in Humans Provide Encouraging Foundation for Upcoming AIDS Vaccine Clinical Trial
• Chemists Find a Way to Synthesize Complex Plant Molecule Phorbol and Its Derivatives
• Team Uses CRISPR to Hit Hibernating HIV
• Snapshot: Andrii Monastyrskyi
• Peter Vogt Receives Outstanding Investigator Award

• Scientists Identify Molecular Markers of Kidney Transplant Rejection
• Study Identifies New Type of Protein Clump that May Be Implicated in ALS
• Researchers Win $1.4 Million Grant to Develop New Ways to Block Breast Cancer
• Friends, Food and… Chemistry
• David Goodsell Wins Top Wellcome Images Award

• New Study Shows HIV Structure in Unprecedented Detail
• Team Finds New Approach to Curbing Cancer Cell Growth
• Study Lays Groundwork for Potential Bipolar Disorder Therapies
• Scientists Win $2.4 Million to Develop New Strategies to Fight Obesity
• Erica Ollmann Saphire Honored by Girl Scouts as ‘Cool Woman’; Bindu Raveendra, Supriya Swarnkar Awarded Young Investigator Scholarships; In CELLebration of Science; Celebration of Life: Kerri Anne Mowen (1976-2016)

• Scientists Find Clues to Neutralizing Coronaviruses Such as MERS
• By Cloning Mouse Neurons,Team Finds Each Brain Cell Carries 100+ Mutations
• Researchers Find Way to Predict Activity of Stem Cells
• Scientists Awarded $2.25 Million to Study Key Mechanisms Behind Some Cancers
• Kudos: ACS Names John Yates to Lead Journal of Proteome Research; Victor Quereda Receives Brain Cancer Research Fellowship

February

• Researchers Discover New Ebola-Fighting Antibodies in Blood of Outbreak Survivor
• Scientists Uncover Potential Target for Treating Autoimmune Disease
• Team Finds Popular Stem Cell Techniques Safe
• New $1.7 Million Grant Funds Search for New Strategies to Treat Huntington’s Disease
• CELLebrate2016 to Highlight Scripps Florida Science; Nicholas Isley Wins National Research Service Award

• Researchers Develop ‘LIGHTSABR’—A Cheap, Portable Drug-Discovery System
• TSRI Study Reveals New Link Between Brain and Fat-Burning Circuit
• Scientists Identify a Memory Suppressor that May Play a Role in Autism
• Kerri Anne Mowen (1974 - 2016)
• Saturday Science: Going Beyond the Textbooks
• Courtney Miller Wins Presidential Early Career Award; Max Ferretti Awarded NRSA Fellowship; Kick-Off Event Introduces New Alumni Association; TSRI Labs Host San Diego Girl Scouts

• Study Reveals Workings of Mysterious ‘Relief Valve’ that Protects Cells from Swelling
• Scientists Win $1.2 Million to Study New Strategies for Treating Obesity, Diabetes, Heart Disease and Muscle Decline
• Snapshot: Jessica Mayeux
• Kudos: Faculty Promotions: Michael Boddy, Xiaohua Wu, William Ja, Shuji Kishi; Mark Herzik Named 2016 Whitney Fellow

• Philanthropist Samuel Yin Provides $12.8 Million Gift for New Scripps California Laboratories
• Remicade^® Developer Funds New Super-Resolution Microscope at Scripps Florida
• Crouching Protein, Hidden Enzyme
• Kudos: Disney Lab ALS Study Selected for Best of Neuron

January

• Study Shows Path to 'Dialing Down' Autoimmunity without Compromising Immune Response
• Scientists Solve 3D Structure of Protein that Guides the Immune System
• Snapshot: Simone Mori
• High School Student Philanthropy Group Selects TSRI for Donation • 27th Annual Frontiers in Chemistry Symposium: February 5

• Team Devises Powerful New Method for Modifying Drug Molecules
• Flipping Molecular ‘Switch’ May Reduce Nicotine’s Effects in the Brain
• Researchers Develop Versatile New Molecule-Building Technique
• Chemists Awarded $2.1 Million to Create Potential New Therapies with Click Chemistry
• TSRI Hosts 27th Annual Frontiers in Chemistry Symposium

• Scientists Advance Physics of Single ‘Transformer’ Proteins with Role in Cancer
• TSRI Team Comes Together with Rare Disease Community
• Snapshot: Danielle Grotjahn
• Kudos: Three Scientific Advances at TSRI Cited Among Among Top Stories of 2015

Vol. 15 (2015)

December

• Letter from the CEO and the President
• Scripps Florida Compound Successfully Targets Hard-to-Treat Breast Cancer
• In Pursuit of AIDS Vaccine, Team Sheds Light on Antibody Origins
• $2 Million Grant Supports Study of Role of Single Neurons in Memory and Aging
• Kudos: TSRI Ranks Number One in HIV/AIDS 'Hot Papers' • Four TSRI Scientists Elected to National Academy of Inventors • Civic Association's Scripps Florida Event Draws Capacity Crowd • SOF Fall Travel Award Winners Announced • 2016 Dixon Lecture to Feature Renowned Immunologist Rafi Ahmed

• Team Finds Unique Anti-Diabetes Compound Using Powerful New Drug-Discovery Method
• Scientists Create 'Fingerprints' for Major Drug Development Targets
• Researchers Show How Drug Molecules Regulate a Medically Important Protein
• Making Scrap Pay
• Kudos: Farzan Lab HIV Study Ranks in Discover’s Top Stories of 2015 • Ron Davis Elected AAAS Council Delegate

• Scientists Find Protein 'Talks' to Wrong Partners in Cystic Fibrosis
• Team Prolongs 'Young Adult' State in Worms
• Study Reveals Potential Treatment for Life-Threatening Viral Infections
• Researchers Win $2.8 Million to Unravel Cell Basics Linked to Disease
• Kudos: Julius Rebek Receives Honorary Doctorate from Spanish University; Sandra Encalada and Michael Petrascheck Win Glenn Award; Salome Murinello Awarded American Diabetes Association Fellowship; Three TSRI Graduate Students Named ARCS Scholars

• Team Discovers New Compounds with Potential to Treat Persistent Tuberculosis
• Researchers Unveil Critical Mechanism of Memory Formation
• Scientists Find Surprising Trait in Anti-HIV Antibodies
• Team Awarded $1.6 Million Grant to Bring Heroin Vaccine Closer to the Clinic
• Prominent Biochemist Peng Wu Joins TSRI
• Kudos: Ryan Shenvi Honored by Royal Chemical Society • Eric Topol Tops List of Twitter Influencers in Life Sciences • Jeanne Loring Named 2015 Stem Cell Person of the Year • Joe Jardine Awarded Whitney Fellowship

• Team Finds Long-Sought Protein Sensor for the ‘Sixth Sense’—Proprioception
• TSRI and St. Jude Scientists Help Launch Human Dark Proteome Initiative
• Bringing Light to the ‘Dark’ Side of Biology: An Interview with Peter Wright and Jane Dyson
• Snapshot: Tamara Ho
• Kudos: Lerner Lab Image Appears as 'Biomedical Picture of the Day'; Tina Izard, Priya Banerjee, Bernard Kok Receive AHA Awards

• Study Reveals How Specialized Cells Help Each Other Survive During Times of Stress
• Making Plans: Scripps Florida Screening Center Expands Its Collaborations
• Team Wins $1.8 Million to Study Early Events in Cancer Metastasis
• Protecting Your Computer from Hackers
• Kudos: Biotech Co-Founded by TSRI's Kerri Mowen Among '10 Start-Ups to Watch'

• Team Points to Cause of Debilitating Nerve Disease
• Study Suggests Tumors May ‘Seed’ Cancer Metastases Earlier Than Expected
• New Public Lecture Series Highlights TSRI Women in Biomedical Research
• Kudos: Analytical Scientist ‘Power List’ Highlights John Yates, Kurt Wütrich • Jeanne Loring Receives Stem Cell Action Award • Photo: Phil Baran Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences • Sarbani Ghoshal Among Winners of Obesity Society Poster Competition

October

• Scientists Find Way to Make Leukemia Cells Kill Each Other
• Team Combats Memory Loss by Enhancing Brain Function
• Graduate Students Present, Practice and Network at Annual Symposium
• Kudos: National Geographic Show Features Erica Ollmann Saphire • Floyd Romesberg to Present TEDMED Talk

• The ‘Startup’ Lab: A Profile of Keary Engle
• German and US Partners Join Forces in Stem Cell Research to Accelerate Development of New Therapies
• Protect Against Taking the Phishing 'Bait'
• Kudos: Report: TSRI and Other Research Institutes Contribute $4.6 Billion to San Diego Economy; Matthew Disney Wins Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award; TSRI Team Conquers 115-Mile Relay

• New Metabolomic Platform Reveals Fundamental Flaw in Common Lab Technology
• TSRI Chemist Wins NIH Director’s Pioneer Award of $4.8 Million
• Snapshot: Margaret Hellwarth
• TSRI Receives More than 1,000 Online Contributions in FY2015; Event Opens New Views into the Cell

• Team Identifies Potential Target for Individualized Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Researchers Identify Promising Drug Candidate to Treat Chronic Itch that Avoids Side Effects
• Michael Oldstone, Courtney Miller Named 2015 TSRI Outstanding Mentors
• Scientists Win $1.5 Million to Investigate Sense of Smell
• Brian Lamb Captures First Place in Lightning Talk Competition; Ryan Hoffman Takes Second, Benjamin Leach, Third; Popular Thriller References Romesberg Lab Work

September

• Scientists Identify a Key Morphine Regulator that May Reduce Risk of Pain-Killer Abuse and Addiction
• Study Identifies Novel Role of Mitochondria in Immune Function
• Researchers Awarded $6 Million to Develop Alternative HIV/AIDS Vaccine
• James Williamson Named VP for Academic Affairs; Douglas Bingham Appointed Executive VP/COO
• TSRI Faculty Listed Among Highly Cited Researchers; Candice Contet, Olivier George and Jiang Zhu Contribute to Inaugural BRAIN Symposium; SRF Announces Sandelman Travel Award Winners; Presentations Win Research Fest Awards

• Scripps Research Institute Names Peter Schultz as CEO, Steve Kay as President
• TSRI and UC San Diego Launch New Consortium to Create 'Virtual Cell'
• Institute Receives $5.65 Million Gift from Philanthropist Helen Dorris
• Kudos: Donna Blackmond Wins Chemical Pioneer Award

• Institute Receives $12.5 Million Challenge Gift
• Scientists Win Up to $10 Million to Complete Preclinical Trials for New Migraine Treatment
• Revealing the Secrets of Brain Cells: A Profile of Jerold Chun
• Kudos: Image Created by Page Lab Selected ‘Biomedical Picture of the Day’

August

• Study by TSRI and Janssen Makes Major Advance Toward More Effective, Long-Lasting Flu Vaccine
• Scientists Uncover Surprising Mechanism Behind Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
• Structural Discoveries Could Aid in Better Drug Design
• In Memoriam: Daniel Williams (1985-2015)
• Nature Reviews Highlights Sale of TSRI Spin-Off Developing MS, Ulcerative Colitis Drug Candidate

August

• Team Finds Better Way to Engineer Therapeutic Proteins into Antibodies
• International Team Discovers the Ancient Origins of Deadly Lassa Virus
• Scientists Determine How Antibiotic Gains Cancer-Killing Sulfur Atoms
• Collaboration Leads to First Structure of Crucial Plant Hormone
• Hands-On Research 101: Internships Introduce Undergrads to Biomedical Science in Action
• $1.4 Million Grant Funds Study of Drug Candidates for Neurological Disorders and Other Diseases
• Kudos: New 'Innovation Indicator' Ranks TSRI Number One; Phil Baran, Donna Blackmond, Tom Kodadek and James Paulson Win ACS Awards; Sathya Puthanveettil Receives NSF CAREER Award

• Scientists Show How Aging Cripples the Immune System, Suggesting Benefits of Antioxidants
• Chemists Report Nicotine-Chomping Bacteria May Hold Key to Anti-Smoking Therapy
• Team Makes Strides in Therapy Preventing Addiction Relapse by Erasing Drug-Associated Memories
• Scientists Win $1.5 Million to Study New Strategies for Parkinson’s and Other Disorders
• Snapshot: Briana Konnick
• Kudos: Paper from Griffin Lab Collaboration Tops Nature’s Most-Read List; Linda Sherman Named Finalist in “Woman of the Year”; Joey Davis Wins Pathway to Independence Award

July

• Technology Meets Teamwork: Andrew Ward Unlocks Viruses' Secrets
• Team Finds New Antibody Weapons against Marburg Virus
• Scientists Pinpoint Mechanism for Altered Pattern of Brain Growth in Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Researcher Wins $4.5 Million in Gates Foundation Grants to Support Development of AIDS Vaccine
• New $2.8 Million Grant Funds to Innovative Approach Latent HIV Infection
• Kudos: Matthew Disney Wins ALS Association Grant; Joseph Schonhoft Named Damon Runyon Fellow

• TSRI-Designed Drug Candidate Significantly Reduces HIV Reactivation Rate
• Chemists Develop Efficient, Scalable Synthesis of Potential Brain-Protecting Compound
• Small RNAs Found to Play Important Roles in Memory Formation
• Best-Selling Author Launches Second Fundraising Effort for Alzheimer’s Research
• Scientists Win $1.2M to Study Environmental Triggers of Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Snapshot: Research Associate Arryn Craney
• Kudos: Scripps Florida Named Among Best R&D in State

June

• AIDS Vaccine Candidate Successfully 'Primes' Immune System
• Scientists Identify a Potential New Treatment for Osteoporosis
• New Close-Up View Reveals Key Part of Ebola Virus Life Cycle
• Findings Point to Drug Target for Huntington’s Disease
• Team Sheds Light on Key Molecule Implicated in Diseases of the Brain
• Study Points to Unexplored Realm of Protein Biology, Drug Targets
• Scientists Awarded $3.5 Million to Expand Development of New Diabetes Therapies
• Brandon Rosen, Jian He to Present at Reaxys Prize Symposium

• Team Shows Antitumor Agent Can Be Activated by Natural Response to Cell Stress
• Research Paints More Complete Picture of Sleep and Memory
• Study: Hormone 'Erases' Male Smell for Female Mice
• Nerve Cells Play Unique Role in the Body’s Use of Energy
• Scientists Win $2.1 Million to Study Protein Linked to Parkinson’s Disease
• Of Note: Kudos: Ben Shen Receives Microbiology Research Award; Phil Baran Wins EROS Best Reagent Award; Cell Paper Highlights Successes in Molecular Libraries Program

• Modern Alchemy: Chemists Devise Synthesis of Valuable Exotic Compounds
• Scientists Identify Interferon Beta as Likely Culprit in Persistent Viral Infections
• Researchers Link Brain Protein to Binge-Drinking Behavior
• Team Wins $2.2 Million to Expand Study of Innovative Obesity Therapy
• Faculty Promotions: Marisa Roberto, Eros Lazzerini Denchi; Salvatore Butera Named Distinguished Alumnus; Mahalakshmi Ramadass Wins AHA Fellowship; Study from Martemyanov Lab Named 'Paper of the Week'

May

• TSRI Celebrates 23rd Commencement
• Leading Philanthropists Attend Conference on Scripps California Campus
• Keynote Address: 'Entering the World of Big'
• Scientists Find Hyped New Recreational Drug ‘Flakka’ Is As Addictive As 'Bath Salts'
• Researchers Shed Light on Enzyme Important for Nervous System Health
• Kudos: Erica Ollmann Saphire Wins Antiviral Research Award

• Study Finds Metabolic Link Between Bacterial ‘Biofilms’ and Colon Cancer
• Researchers Connect Haywire Protein to Breast Cancer, Leukemia
• Married to Science
• Scientists Win $2.4 Million to Expand Development of New Pain Therapies
• Kudos: Chi-Huey Wong Receives Royal Society of Chemistry Award

• New Study: Nerve Cells and Blood Vessels in Eye ‘Talk’ to Prevent Disease
• Scientists Uncover Surprising New Details of Potential Alzheimer’s Treatment
• Skaggs Family Renews Its Support for TSRI Research
• Developing the Gentle Art of Persuasion
• Kudos: Slava Bernat Receives Myotonic Dystrophy Fellowship; CA ScrippsAssists Honored for Food Bank Service

April

• Neuroscientists Identify Brain Circuitry Responsible for Increased Anxiety in Smoking Cessation
• Researchers Win $3.9 Million to Study Brain Regions that Suppress Cocaine and Alcohol Cravings
• Professor Jane Dyson Shares Her Zig-Zag Path
• Kudos: Phil Baran Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

• Team Finds Molecular Trigger of Schizophrenia-Like Behaviors and Brain Changes
• Study: Nicotine Use Increases Compulsive Alcohol Consumption
• Scientists Uncover How Molecule Protects Brain Cells in Parkinson’s Disease Model
• New $1.2 Million Grant Funds Search for Drug Candidates to Treat Wide Range of Cancers
• Kudos: TSRI Graduate Students Win NSF Fellowships; Joanne Doherty Receives Florida Center for Tumor Brain Research Grant; Disney Lab Intern Takes First Place in STEM Competition

• Team Reveals Unique Mechanism of Natural Product with Powerful Antimicrobial Action
• Scientists Win $3.3 Million Grant to Accelerate Treatments for Intellectual Disability, Autism, Epilepsy
• Snapshot: Darci Trader
• Kudos: Makarenkova Lab Abstract Selected as ‘Hot Topic’; Jian He Wins International Precious Metals Institute Award; Newest SoF Travel Award Winners Are Jennifer Hazen, Mathieu Lavallee-Adam, Sunitha Rangaraju

March

• Cells You Can See: A Profile of Art Olson
• Team Breaks Imaging Barrier
• Enzyme Keeps Blood Stem Cells Functional to Prevent Anemia
• Kudos: Frank Chisari Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

• Go Meta: New Technique Expands Possibilities for Molecular Designers
• New Compound Prevents Type 1 Diabetes in Animal Models—Before It Begins
• Scientists Confirm Key Targets of New Anti-Cancer Drug Candidates
• New $1.5 Million Grant Funds Work to Develop New Cancer Drugs
• Kudos: TSRI Faculty Featured on UC-TV Videos

• Team Finds New Class of Drugs that Dramatically Increases Healthy Lifespan
• Scientists Reveal Structural Secrets of Nature’s Little Locomotive
• Study Shows Two New Flu Strains Do Not Yet Easily Infect Humans
• Proteins Critical in Day-Night Cycles Also Protect Cells from Mutations
• John Yates Receives Ralph N. Adams Biochemistry Award

• Team Finds Clues to Cancer Drug Failure
• Scientists Find a Defect Responsible for Memory Impairment in Aging
• FAU, Scripps Florida, Max Planck Announce Plans for Research and Education Collaboration
• Srini Subramaniam Wins Alzheimer’s Association Grant

• Team Shows How Rare Antibody Targets Ebola and Marburg Virus
• Research Shows Decreased Aggressive Behavior Toward Strangers in Autism Spectrum Disorder Model
• Scientists Find New Cellular Pathway Defect in Cystinosis
• Study Shows Safer Methods for Stem Cell Culturing
• TSRI Female Faculty Share Science with Donors and the Public
• Kudos: Juan de la Torres, Marta Perego Elected Fellows of Academy of Microbiology

February

• Scientists Announce Anti-HIV Agent So Powerful It Can Work in a Vaccine
• Prion Discovery Points to Possible Neuron Killing Mechanism Behind Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Diseases
• Cow Immune System Inspires Potential New Therapies
• Microbes Prevent Malnutrition in Fruit Flies—and Maybe Humans, Too
• New TSRI Trustees Include Two Faculty Members, San Diego Business and Community Leader
• Faculty Promotions: Floyd Romesberg, Ryan Shenvi, Lisa Stowers, Anton Maximov, Brian Paegel, Sathya Puthanveettil, Andrew Ward

• Scientists Find More DNA and Extra Copies of Disease Gene in Alzheimer’s Brain Cells
• Discovered: Key Pathway That Protects Cells Against Death by Stress
• Study Shows How Immune Cells Hone Their Skills to Fight Disease
• Snapshot: Mary Schrot
• CELLebrate Science Presents Wonders of Research

• Team Establishes that Drug Candidates Can Block Pathway Linked to Cell Death in Parkinson’s Disease
• Team Wins $1.7 Million to Develop Stem Cell Quality Control Methods
• New 'Ph.D. Pathways' Videos Feature Early-Career Scientists

January

• Bruce Torbett: Science Knows No Bounds
• Scientists Move Closer to a Personalized Treatment Solution for Intellectual Disability
• In Memoriam: Aline Wilmot Skaggs (1926 – 2015)
• 6 Career Tips from TSRI Alumni
• 6th Annual CELLebrate Science Day to Highlight Scripps Florida Research

• Nicotine Vaccine Provokes Robust Immune Response
• Researchers Develop Novel Platform for Treatment of Breast, Pancreatic Cancer
• Team Discovers Possible New Target for Treating Brain Inflammation
• 6th Annual CELLebrate Science Day to Highlight Scripps Florida Research

• Scientists Uncover New, Fundamental Mechanism for How Resveratrol Provides Health Benefits
• Researchers Find Drug That Helps Huntington’s Disease-Afflicted Mice—and Their Offspring
• Team Illuminates Mysterious Molecular Mechanism Powering Cells in Most Forms of Life
• New Hope for Newborns: How a TSRI Scientist Brought a Life-Saving Drug from the Lab to the Clinic
• Ryan Shenvi Receives Novartis Early Career Award, BMS Grant; Fabian Stavenuite Awarded Travel Grant

Vol. 14 (2014)

December

• Research Advances from 2014
• Letter from the President
• Scientists Open New Frontier of Vast Chemical ‘Space’
• Team Develops 'Cool' New Method for Probing How Molecules Fold
• TSRI Ranks Among Top Institutions Globally According to Nature Index; Jessica Sheu-Gruttdauria Wins Heart Association Fellowship

• Solving a Long-Standing Mystery, Team Identifies Key Protein Sensor for Touch
• TSRI Scientists Lead New Age of Electron Microscopy
• Researchers Determine Structure of a Molecular Complex Critical for Joining Cells Together
• Scripps Florida Scientists Win Grant to Uncover Ways to Erase Toxic PTSD Memories
• Romesberg Research Voted ‘People’s Choice’ for 2014 Science Breakthrough; Luke Wiseman Awarded Amyloidosis Foundation Grant; Ryan Stowe Named Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow; Brandon Rosen Wins Top Graduate Student Symposium Prize

• Pain and Itch in a Dish
• Researchers Find How Mutant Gene Can Cause Deafness
• Scientists Create New Tool for Exploring Cells in 3D
• Volunteers Can Now Help Seek Ebola Cure in Their (Computer's) Spare Time
• Of Note: Erica Ollmann Saphire Elected AAAS Fellow; Liron Bar-Peled Wins Grand Prize in Science & SciLifeLab Competition

November

• Team Reveals Weak Spots in Ebola’s Defenses
• Researchers Discover New Type of Neuron that Plays Key Role in Nicotine Addiction
• Cells' Response to Chronic Protein Misfolding May Do More Harm than Good
• Physician-Scientist Shares His Journey to Help Those with Autoimmune Diseases
• Brock Grill Promoted to Associate Professor; EM Conference Draws Participants from Around World; Scripps CA Cheers on Komen 3-Day Walkers

• The Backwards Brain? Study Shows How Brain Maps Develop to Help Us Perceive the World
• Catalyst-Where-You-Want-It Method Expands Possibilities for New Drug Development
• Scientists Unveil New Targets and Test to Develop Treatments for Memory Disorders
• Snapshot: Staff Counselor Diana Bull
• 2014 Sandelman Award Winners

• Scientists Capture Picture of MicroRNA In Action
• Study Shows How Exercise Could Reduce Relapse During Meth Withdrawal
• The Language of the Brain: A Profile of Ulrich Müller
• FL Research Fest 2014 Spotlights Scientific Achievements; San Diego Mayor Touts Biomedical Research in Visit to TSRI

• Scientists Make Enzyme that Could Help Explain Origins of Life
• New Clinical Trial Data: MS Drug Candidate Also Shows Promise for Ulcerative Colitis
• Researchers Uncover Major Factor in Development of Huntington’s Disease
• Jamal Malik Wins EPA Fellowship; Successful Oktoberfest Fundraiser Benefits Blood Cancer Research

October

• Chemists Achieve New Technique with Profound Implications for Drug Development
• New Studies Bring Scientists Closer to Combating Dangerous Unstable Proteins
• Revealing Protein Flexibility: The Griffin Lab Advances HDX Technology
• Joseph Kissil Named Scripps Florida 2014 Outstanding Mentor
• Gerald Joyce Elected to the National Institute of Medicine

• Scientists Link ALS Progression to Increased Protein Instability
• Scientists Identify Trigger for Crucial Immune System Cell
• Researchers Receive $6.6 Million to Investigate Deadly Lassa Virus
• Snapshot: Dana Scoville
• Crowdfunding Supporters Pitch In to Help Ebola Research

• Scientists Create Mimic of 'Good' Cholesterol to Fight Heart Disease and Stroke
• San Diego Researchers Receive $4.4 Million in New NIH ‘Big Data’ Initiative
• 10 Tips for Scientists on Talking to the Media
• Gavin Rumbaugh Awarded Grant Renewal for Study of Genetic Defects Tied to Intellectual Development

• TSRI Collaboration Finds Ancient Protein-Making Enzyme Moonlights as DNA Protector
• Scientists Shed Light on Cause of Spastic Paraplegia
• Team to Investigate Role of ‘Vaping’ in Nicotine Dependence
• Six TSRI Graduate Students Named ARCS Scholars

September

• Surprising Diversity of Antibody Family Provides Clues for HIV Vaccine Design
• TSRI Scientists Awarded $7.9 Million to Develop Artificial Immune System
• Helping Teens Find a Path to STEM Careers
• Ben Shen Named Vice-Chair of Chemistry; Laura Bohn, Matthew Pipkin, William Schief and Peiqing Sun Receive Promotions

• TSRI Chemists Modify Antibiotic to Vanquish Resistant Bacteria
• Toward a New Drug for Multiple Sclerosis
• Jack Johnson Honored as Outstanding Mentor
• New Genomic Equipment at TSRI Enables Scientists to Analyze Single Cells
• Gerald Joyce Named Director of GNF; Matthew Eddy, Anjana Nityanandam and Dan Carney Win ‘Lightning Talk’ Prizes

• Professor Dennis Burton: In Search of an Effective HIV/AIDS Vaccine
• Donor Eleanor Mosca: Explorer, Caregiver, Educator—and TSRI Supporter
• Graduate Student Sany Hoxha: Captivated by Complexity
• TSRI Screening Center Helps Advance Drug Candidate to Clinical Trials; Karsten Sauer and Stephanie Rigaud Receive AAI Award

• TSRI Panel Shares Critical Ebola Work with the Public
• Scientists Make Diseased Cells Synthesize Their Own Drug
• Researchers Link Alcohol-Dependence Gene to Neurotransmitter
• Team Identifies Important Regulators of Immune Cell Response
• Velia Fowler Named Acting Chair of Department of Cell and Molecular Biology; Christoph Lentsch and Rita Fuerst Receive Schrodinger Fellowships

August

• Scientists Demonstrate Long-Sought Drug Candidate Can Halt Tumor Growth
• Scripps Research Institute Announces Interim Leadership
• Chemists Uncover Powerful New Click Chemistry Reactivity
• Team Successfully Targets Common Mutation in Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Frontotemporal Dementia
• A Gene Linked to Disease Found to Play a Critical Role in Normal Memory Development
• Team Awarded $4.4 Million to Investigate 10-Minute DNA Sequencing Technology
• Jin-Quan Yu Wins ACS Elias J. Corey Award; John Yates II Receives ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry; Denis Malyshev and Floyd Romesberg Win Nobel Laureate Signature Award; Peter Schultz Named Top Translational Researcher; Travis Hughes Wins NIH Pathway to Independence Award; Stephanie Sillivan Receives Early Career Award

• Team Finds New Calorie-Burning Switch in Brown Fat
• Scientists Create Most Detailed Map Yet of Virus that Causes Colds, Pink Eye
• Researchers Find Genetic Mutations Linked to Salivary Gland Tumors
• TSRI Scientists Awarded $3.4 Million to Investigate the Secret Lives of Brain Cells
• David Gokhin Wins NIH Pathway to Independence Award; Joel Blanchard Receives Stem Cell Research Poster Award

• Letter from Richard Gephardt
• Team Finds Ancient Protein-Building Enzymes Have Evolved Diverse New Functions
• Researchers Identify Gene that Plays a Surprising Role in Combating Aging
• Listening to Cells: Ardem Patapoutian at Work
• Grant Supports Development of New Breed of Cancer Treatments
• TSRI Faculty Members Rank Among ‘Most Influential Scientific Minds’; Philip Dawson Receives Zervas Award; Linda Sherman Assumes AAI Presidency; Dawn Johnson Joins Economic Council; Cherie Ng Wins NIH Pathway to Independence Award

• State-of-the-Art Electron Microscopes Open New Vistas for TSRI Researchers
• Team Sheds New Light on Nerve Cell Growth
• Scientists Uncover New Compounds that Could Affect Circadian Rhythm
• In Memoriam: Janet R. “Jean” Kellogg (1917–2014)
• Researchers Awarded $2.6 Million to Develop Stem Cell Lines for Global Research
• Tom Kodadek Named Cancer Biology Chair, Erica Ollmann Saphire Receives Young Investigator Award; Hollis Cline Elected President of Society for Neuroscience

June

• Letter from Dick Gephardt, Chair of the TSRI Board of Trustees
• Team Finds Potential New Use for Cancer Drug in Gene Therapy for Blood Disorders
• Scientists Pinpoint How Genetic Mutation Causes Early Brain Damage
• Study Finds Molecular ‘Yin-Yang’ Regulates Blood Vessel Growth
• In Memoriam: Carlos F. Barbas III
  (1964 – 2014)
• Scientific Art on the Fly: Behind the Scenes of the New Airport Exhibit
• Gabriel Lander Named 2014 Pew Scholar; Xin Zhang Wins Burroughs Wellcome Career Award

• Study Shows Hemorrhagic Fevers Can Be Caused by Body’s Antiviral Interferon Response
• Revealing the Molecular Secrets of Short, Intense Workouts
• Team Generates Long-Sought Molecular Map of Critical Genetic Machinery
• Scientists Find New Targets that Could Increase Effectiveness, Reduce Side Effects in Breast Cancer Treatments
• Researchers Discover New Role for Protein that Repairs Unstable DNA ‘Hotspots’
• Team Wins $13 Million Grant in AIDS Vaccine Effort
• MS Drug Discovered at TSRI Begins Phase 3 Trials; Cindy Ehlers Named Distinguished Researcher; Winning Images: 'Taking Art to the Cellular Level'

• Hitting a Moving Target: AIDS Vaccine Could Work Against Changeable Site on HIV
• In Memoriam: Gerald Edelman (1929 - 2014)
• Scientists Find an Unlikely Stress Responder May Protect Against Alzheimer’s
• Chemists Discover Structure of Cancer Drug Candidate
• Team Catches Misguided DNA-Repair Proteins in the Act
• Scientists Wins $2 Million Grant to Study Impact of Early Nutrition on Lifespan
• CA ScrippsAssists Celebrates 1,800 Hours of Service in 2013

May

• TSRI Celebrates 22nd Commencement
• Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for MS in Mouse Model
• Special Proteins Guide Immunity Against Bacteria that Employ 'Glycan Camouflage'
• Molecules in Motion: A Profile of Ryan Shenvi
• Class of ‘14

• Scientists Create First Living Organism that Transmits Added Letters in DNA 'Alphabet'
• Outsmarting Viruses: A Profile of Erica Ollmann Saphire
• Symposium Tackles Question of How to Extend Human 'Healthspan'
• Grant Funds Development of New Diagnostics for Cancer, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Colitis
• Kelvin Chan Receives GEN TEN Award; NIH Grant Supports TSRI Summer Internship Programs

• To Mark Territory or Not to Mark Territory: Breaking the Pheromone Code
• Scientists Reveal Molecular Secrets Behind Resveratrol’s Health Benefits
• New Grant Funds Study to Develop Better Diabetes Drugs
• Dale Boger, Benjamin Cravatt Elected to National Academy of Sciences; Jakob Fuhrmann Receives Schroedinger Fellowship; Ruben Martinez Wins NIH Fellowship;

April

• Team Finds New Point of Attack on HIV for Vaccine Development
• TSRI Announces ‘Scripps Advance,’ a New Drug Discovery Initiative
• Researchers Find Connection Between Gene Mutation, Key Symptoms of Autism
• Scientists Identify Critical Protein Complex Involved in Learning and Memory
• Stroke Drug from Griffin Lab Advances to Phase 2 Clinical Trials; Kristin Baldwin Receives Las Patronas Grant; John Teijaro Selected as Baxter Young Investigator; Scripps Florida to Host Biology and Aging Symposium

• Team Solves Decades-Old Mystery of How Cells Keep from Bursting
• Scientists Provide New Grasp of Soft Touch
• Researchers Uncover Startling New Functional Details of Common Anti-Diabetic Drugs
• Grant Funds Study of How Exposure to Pain Meds in the Womb Affects Developing Brain
• Gabriel Lander Named 2014 Searle Scholar; Facilities, Construction & Engineering Wins McKeown Award

• Team Identifies a Novel Biomarker for Head and Neck Cancer, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
• Findings Show ‘Best Practices’ Nutrition Measurement for Researchers
• TSRI Scientists Organize International Conference on Alcoholism and Stress Research
• Dawn Eastmond Steps into Larger Role in TSRI Graduate Office
• Ryan Shenvi Receives NSF Career Award; Five TSRI Graduate Students Awarded NSF Fellowships

March

• In Mapping Feat, Scientists Pinpoint Neurons Where Select Memories Grow
• Team Awarded $2.3 Million to Study Dengue Fever and Related Viruses
• TSRI Scientists Share Social Media Tips
• Scripps Florida Awarded NSF Grant for Summer Research Program; Matthias Pauthner Wins HIV/AIDS Research Fellowship; Dejan Caglič, Yannan Zhao, Sheena Saayman Selected for SoF Travel Awards

• Scientists Devise New, Lower Cost Method to Create More Usable Fuels
• Stumbling Fruit Flies Lead to Discovery of Gene Essential for Sensing Joint Position
• Consortium Wins Up to $28 Million to Find Best Ebola Treatment
• TSRI Graduate School Brings Home Fresh Top-10 Rankings from U.S. News & World Report
• Ballpark Cheers Scripps Florida Day; Palm Beach County Commission Recognizes Scripps Florida’s 10th Anniversary; Gardens Mall Festival to Feature Scripps Florida ‘Future of Medicine’ Panel

• Team Discovers a Better Way to Make Unnatural Amino Acids
• Building New Drugs Just Got Easier
• New Probes Quantify Folded and Misfolded Protein Levels in Cells
• Letter:
  Leonard Jones (1956-2014)
• TSRI Intern Eric Chen Wins Third National Science Competition

• Team Creates Most Detailed Picture Ever of Membrane Protein Linked to Learning, Memory, Brain Disorders
• Scientists Shed Light on Deadly Immune ‘Storm’ Caused by Emergent Flu Infections
• Agreement Streamlines New TSRI-GNF Collaborations
• Dale Boger Wins Award for Outstanding Cancer Research; Ludovic Autin Named Finalist in Science Art Competition

• The Ultimate Decoy: Scientist Find Unique Protein that Misdirects Immune System
• Team Uncovers Drug Resistance Mechanism that Could Impact Development of Two Antibiotic Drugs
• Snapshot: Program Coordinator Diana “Jean” Branan
• Faculty Promotions: Mark Mayford, Katrin Karbstein, Laurent Mosnier, Courtney Miller, Hendrik Szurmant, Changchun Xiao; Lerner Paper Reaches Top 10 in F1000 Prime Ranking

February

• Breakthrough Approach Quickly Identifies New Drug Candidates from Genome Sequence
• Gala Celebrates Scripps Florida Milestone
• 10 Comments on Scripps Florida’s 10th
• Team Awarded $2.3 Million to Unlock Mysteries of Long-Term Memory
• Carlos Barbas, Erica Ollmann Saphire Named Fellows of Academy of Microbiology; Ryan Shenvi Wins Sloan Research Fellowship

• Team Creates Potential Vaccine Ingredient for Childhood Respiratory Disease
• A Day for Scripps Florida Science at The Gardens Mall
• Snapshot: Cullen Schmid
• Baldwin Lab to Contribute to New $40 Million Stem Cell Genomics Center; Laura Rosenberg Awarded Cancer Research Fellowship

• Scientists Offer New Insight into Neuron Changes Brought About by Aging
• Team Awarded $1.8 Million to Develop New Approaches to Lung Cancer Therapy
• Middle School Student Raises Funds for Alzheimer’s Research at TSRI
• Raymond Moellering and Liron Bar-Peled Receive Cancer Research Grants; Jintang Du Awarded Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation Fellowship

January

• Scientists Demonstrate Powerful Method to Find New Therapies, Prevent Cell Death
• Team Develops Promising Drug Candidates for Pain, Addiction
• Researchers Find Regulator of Amyloid Plaque Buildup in Alzheimer’s Disease
• Chi-Huey Wong Wins Prestigious Wolf Prize in Chemistry

• Scientists Solve 40-year Mystery of How Sodium Controls Opioid Brain Signaling
• Researchers Develop Test to Predict Early Onset of Heart Attacks
• Innovative Screening Strategy Swiftly Uncovers New Drug Candidates, New Biology
• New Philanthropy Officer Joins Scripps Florida
• Scripps California Claims Third Win in Rideshare Challenge; Mike Matrone Elected Treasurer of Graduate Career Consortium

• Team Finds New Way to Map Important Drug Targets
• Scientists Design Targeted New Drug Candidates Based on Detailed Picture of Muscular Dystrophy Defect
• Nociceptin: Nature’s Balm for the Stressed Brain
• Researchers Identify Possible Key to Drug Resistance in Crohn’s Disease
• Charles Weissmann Wins Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine; TSRI Chemists’ Work Selected Among Most Significant in 2013; Kendall Nettles Awarded Cancer Research Grant; Four TSRI Researchers Receive AHA Awards

Vol. 13 (2013)

December

• Study Finds Emerging Bird Flu Strain Is Still Poorly Adapted for Infecting Humans
• Letter from the President
• Compound Dramatically Reduces Joint Inflammation
• Michael Marletta Elected Fellow of National Academy of Inventors; Multiple Sclerosis Drug Discovered at TSRI Advances to Phase 3 Trials; Peter Schultz Named AAAS Fellow; Matthew Disney Wins the ACS David Robertson Award

• TSRI Team Achieves Most Detailed Picture Ever of Key Part of Hepatitis C Virus
• Scientists Discover New Survival Mechanism for Stressed Mitochondria
• Snapshot: Research Associate Emi Casas
• TSRI Named ‘Top Institution’ in HIV/AIDS Research, Dennis Burton, ‘Hot Researcher’; Study Rates George Koob, Peter Schultz, Eric Topol, John Yates as ‘Highly Influential’; White House Hosts Daniel Salomon for HOPE Act; Katja Lamia Receives Lung Cancer Research Grant

November

• Inside the Second Genetic Code: An Interview with Paul Schimmel
• TSRI-Nikon Partnership Allows Scientists to See More Clearly, Probe Deeper
• Seminar Explores Career Options in Life Sciences Industry
• Michael Marletta Reaches Out at West Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce Event; Vadim Cherezov Promoted to Associate Professor; Andrew Ward Wins Ray Thomas Edwards Foundation Award

• Researchers Capture Structure of Key Part of Deadly Nipah Virus
• Team Links a Protein to Initial Tumor Growth in Several Cancers
• Grant Funds Development of New Methods to Identify Drug Candidates
• Tributes and Bluegrass Tunes Toast George Siggins

• Clinical Trial Indicates Gabapentin Is Safe and Effective for Treating Alcohol Dependence
• TSRI Appoints Palm Beach Executive as Major Gifts Director
• New Group Offers Business Training for Scientists
• Kirill Martemyanov Wins Cogan Award for Ophthalmology Research; SOF Announces CA Travel Award Winners

• Scientists Capture Most Detailed Picture Yet of Key AIDS Protein
• Preclinical Study Offers Hope for New Approach to Controlling HIV
• NIH Names George Koob Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
• John Yates Ranked #1 on ‘Power List’ of Analytical Scientists, Kurt Wüthrich Among Top 100; Research Fest Recognizes Top Presentations; FL Sandelman Award Winners Selected

October

• New Eye Treatment Effective in Laboratory Tests
• Scripps Translational Science Institute Wins $29 Million Grant
• Scripps Florida Mentorship Award Honors Laura Niedernhofer and Christoph Rader

• New Strategy to Treat Multiple Sclerosis Shows Promise in Mice
• Scientists Invent a Better Way to Make Antibody-Guided Therapies
• Team Identifies Potential New Drug for Inherited Cancer
• Horacio Valeiras and Bernard Saint-Donat Elected to TSRI Board of Trustees
• Intern Eric Chen Wins Google’s Grand Prize; Youjun Chen and William Pryor Win O’Keeffe Neuroscience Awards

• New Map of Insulin Pathway Could Lead to Better Diabetes Drugs
• Scientists Develop New Process to Create Artificial Cell Membranes
• Researchers Shed Light on Body’s Master Energy Regulator
• Study Finds New Moves in Protein’s Evolution
• Peter Schultz Awarded ‘Chemistry for the Future Solvay Prize’; Scott Hansen Wins NIH New Innovator Award; Cary Thomas Elected AIRI President-Elect

September

• Phil Baran Wins MacArthur Fellowship
• Team Discovers Important Wound-Healing Process
• Study Explores Barriers to HIV Vaccine Response
• Scientists Develop a More Effective Molecular Modeling Process
• Hollis Cline Selected as Outstanding Mentor
• Faculty Promotions—Susana Valente and Patricia McDonald

• Scientists Create Extremely Potent and Improved Derivatives of Successful Anticancer Drug
• Team Solves Century-Old Chemistry Problem
• TSRI Appoints Columbia University Scientist to Chemistry Department
• Society of Fellows Turns 50
• Erica Ollmann Saphire’s Lab Celebrates 10th Anniversary

• Molecular Structure Reveals How HIV Infects Cells
• International Study Provides New Genetic Clue to Anorexia
• Findings Suggest Possibility of Selectively Erasing Unwanted Memories
• Scientists Pinpoint Proteins Vital to Long-Term Memory
• Geoff Graham Receives Professional Philanthropy Honor

• Team Finds 'Weakest Link' in the Aging Proteome
• Scientists Report Breakthrough in DNA Editing Technology
• Researchers Detail Critical Role of Gene in Many Lung Cancer Cases
• Snapshot: Nick Burchfield
• High School Intern Eric Chen Selected as a Global Finalist in Google Science Fair

August

• Team Reveals How Deadly Ebola Virus Assembles
• Scientists Find Key Signal that Guides Brain Development
• Study Shows MicroRNAs Can Trigger Lymphomas
• Bestselling Author Raises More than $50,000 for Alzheimer’s Research at TSRI
• A Summer of Science
• Sergio Catz and Gennaro Napolitano Awarded Cystinosis Research Grant

• Team Finds Long-Sought Method to Efficiently Make Complex Anticancer Compound
• Scientists Devise New Way to Dramatically Raise RNA Treatment Potency
• New Findings Could Help Improve Development of Drugs for Addiction
• Researchers Discover New Type of Protein Modification that May Play a Role in Cancer and Diabetes
• Scripps Florida Team Awarded $10.6 Million to Decipher Root Causes of Human Aging
• Michael Marletta Joins Board of FL Inventors Hall of Fame; Dawn Johnson Named Healthcare Power Leader in South Florida; Amanda MacLeod Receives NIH Career Development Award; Yannan Zhao Wins Young Investigator Award; Bala Vummidi Receives Swiss National Fellowship

July

• Revealed: 3D Structure of Key Drug Target for Diabetes
• TSRI, Sigma-Aldrich^® Partner to Accelerate the Commercialization of Research Reagents
• Drug Candidate Leads to Improved Endurance
• Scientists Find a Potential Cause of Parkinson’s Disease that Points to a New Therapeutic Strategy
• New Android App Helps TSRI Researchers Fight AIDS
• Benjamin Cravatt Wins ASBMB Merck Award for Outstanding Research; Peter Hodder to Co-Lead Study to Find New Cancer Drugs; Zhaoming Su Wins Award for ALS Research; FL Postdoctoral Fellows Win Gordon Conference Poster Competition

• Team Shows ‘Bath Salts’ Stimulant Could Be More Addictive than Meth
• Scientists Turn Muscular Dystrophy Defect On and Off in Cells
• Researchers Design a Potential Drug Compound that Attacks Parkinson’s Disease on Two Fronts
• Tiny RNA Molecules Shed Light on Immune Response
• Christoph Rader and William Roush Awarded $1.4 Million Leukemia Research Grant

• New Compound Excels at Killing Persistent and Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
• Structure from Disorder: Scientists Find New Source of Versatility so ‘Floppy’ Proteins Can Get Things Done
• Researchers Discover Key Signaling Pathway that Makes Young Neurons Connect
• Team Points to Brain’s ‘Dark Side’ as Key to Cocaine Addiction
• Study Shows a Solitary Mutation Can Destroy Critical ‘Window’ of Early Brain Development
• Valery Fokin Wins Russian ‘Mega-Grant’ Award; Ryan Shenvi Selected as Baxter Young Investigator; Christoph Rader Receives Lymphoma Research Grant; Stephen Connelly Awarded MBA Fellowship; CA Campus Wins Third Bike-to-Work Challenge

June

• Scripps Florida Philanthropy Hosts Luau by the Lake
• Unusual Antibodies in Cows Suggest New Ways to Make Therapies for People
• Scientists Develop New Technique to Selectively Dampen Harmful Immune Responses
• Team Uncovers New Details of Natural Anticancer Mechanism
• Crime Fiction Writer Launches Raffle to Raise Money for Alzheimer’s Research at TSRI
• Brian Paegel Wins Prestigious NSF Career Award; Katja Lamia Named Kimmel Scholar for Cancer Research; Nicolas Grillet Selected as Finalist in GE Image Competition

• Scientists Develop Powerful New Method for Finding Therapeutic Antibodies
• Dan Salomon Embraces the Complexity of Transplant Medicine
• Marshall Criser III and James LaBelle Join Board of Trustees
• Esther B. O'Keeffe Foundation Donates $250,000 to Fund Scripps Florida Neuroscience Training Program
• Brunhilde H. Felding Wins Breast Cancer Research Grant; Daniel Salomon Assumes Presidency of American Society of Transplantation; 'New Venture in World Science' Draws Palm Beach Community Members

May

• TSRI Celebrates 21st Commencement
• Snapshot: Class of 2013
• Photo Album: A Day to Remember
• The 46 New Graduates
• Congratulations to the Kellogg School graduates!

• Preclinical Study Shows Heroin Vaccine Blocks Relapse
• TSRI and Janssen Ink New Research and License Agreement
• Team Finds Key to Gene-Silencing Activity
• Scientists Uncover Workings of Cancer-Linked DNA-Repair Mechanism
• Ardem Patapoutian Named HHMI Investigator; George Koob Awarded Honorary Degree from the University of Bordeaux; K.C. Nicolaou Elected to Royal Society of London

• Team Finds Dissimilar Proteins Evolved Similar 7-Part Shape
• Scientists Create Novel Approach to Finding RNAs Involved in Long-Term Memory Storage
• How a Protein Finds Its Way
• Innovative Scientist Joins Neuroscience Department
• Donna Blackmond and Gerald Joyce Named Simons Investigators; Jerold Chun’s New Book Offers Resource in Growing Scientific Field

April

• Scientists Find Antibody that Transforms Bone Marrow Stem Cells Directly into Brain Cells
• TSRI Appoints Immunology Researcher to Faculty
• Scripps Florida’s Small Green Steps Go Far
• Ryan Shenvi Wins Amgen Young Investigator Award; Cesare Orlandi and Kristine Griffett Named Travel Award Winners; Environmental Services Earns McKeown Award

• Scientists Help Unravel a Central Mystery of Alzheimer’s Disease
• Team Finds Interferon, One of the Body’s Own Proteins, Induces Persistent Viral Infection
• Scientists Illuminate Elusive Mechanism of Widely Used Click Reaction
• Karen Marcus to Assist Scripps Florida with Government and Community Relations
• Peter K. Vogt Wins International Cancer Research Award; Joel Buxbaum Honored with NYU Biotechnology Award

• New Vaccine-Design Approach Targets HIV and Other Fast-Mutating Viruses
• Scientists Identify First Potentially Effective Therapy for Human Prion Disease
• Interactive Textbook Offers New Kind of Resource for Academic and Industrial Chemists
• Daniel Murin, Ruben Martinez and Greg Solis Win NSF Fellowships; ScrippsAssists Recognizes Volunteers and Accomplishments

• Study Reveals How Serotonin Receptors Can Shape Drug Effects from LSD to Migraine Medication
• Scientists Uncover New Compounds that Alter Cell Signaling, Point to New Approaches to Breast Cancer
• Scripps Florida Scientists Awarded Special Collaborative Grant to Develop
  Anti-Addiction Therapies
• In Memoriam:
  Curtis Burnham Wilson, Jr. (1936-2013)
• Peter K. Vogt Elected to AACR Academy’s Inaugural Class of Fellows; Rick Sando Receives NIH Fellowship; Suzanne Peterson Places Second in CIRM ‘Elevator Pitch’ Challenge, Darryl D’Lima, Anjana Nityanandam, Victoria Bendersky Receive Notable Mentions; SOF Announces Postdoctoral Travel Awards

March

• Philanthropist John Moores Gives $2 Million to TSRI to Develop River Blindness Field Test
• In Memoriam:
  L.S. ‘Sam’ Skaggs Jr. (1923 - 2013)
• Findings Underline Potential of New Technology to Diagnose Disease
• BallenIsles Event Raises More than $100,000 for Scripps Florida Prostate Cancer Research

• Hugh Rosen Makes Strides Toward New Treatments for MS, Flu and PTSD
• TSRI and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Expand Collaboration
• Institute Appoints Innovative Biotech Scientist to Cancer Biology Department
• Sunitha Rangaraju Awarded Muscular Dystrophy Association Grant

• Findings Reveal a New and Much Needed Test for River Blindness Infection
• ‘Bench to Boardroom’ Symposium Honors Memory of Donny Strosberg
• How to Succeed in Academia
• Paper by Boger Lab Ranked Best in 2012 by Organic Letters; Kanny Wan Selected to Attend Meeting with Nobel Laureates

• Scientists Find Surprising New Influence on Cancer Genes
• Researchers Solve Mystery of Mutations in Antibodies
• Scientists Awarded $2 Million to Study Tumor-Inhibiting Proteins
• Kudos: Jin-Quan Yu Wins Sackler Prize; Organic Letters Highlights Contributions of Valery Fokin, Carlos Barbas, William Roush

February

• Scientists Find Promising New Approach to Preventing Progression of Breast Cancer
• Letter from the Board
• Study Shows How Brain Cells Shape Temperature Preferences
• Noted Vaccine and Bioinformatics Researcher Joins Faculty
• Ron Davis Wins $3.5 million Jacob K. Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award
• Kudos: TSRI Startup Enters into $111 Million Antibiotic Drug Discovery Collaboration; Kate Carroll Receives Tenure; Chitra Mandyam and Michael Zwick Promoted to Associate Professor

• Team Finds a Key Element of Lupus, Suggesting Better Drug Targets
• Scientists Discover How Chromosomes Keep Their Loose Ends Loose
• Compound Developed by Scripps Florida Scientists Protects Heart Cells During and After Attack
• Donna Blackmond Elected to National Academy of Engineering

• Scientists Uncover Previously Unknown Mechanism of Memory Formation
• TSRI and Scripps Clinic Lay Groundwork for Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Trials
• A New Natural Products Library Comes to Town
• Memory Researcher Joins FL Neuroscience Faculty
• Evgenia Nikolova Named Robert Black Fellow; TSRI to Host 24th Frontiers in Chemistry Symposium

January

• Andrew Su Sets Out to Scale Mountains of Data
• Scripps Florida Invites Community to CELLebrate
• TSRI Names David Blinder to Key Fundraising Position
• Grant Funds Development of Drug Candidates for Rheumatoid Arthritis, Neurodegenerative Disorders
• CA Campus Recycling Efforts Top 1 Million Pounds

• Chinese Medicinal Herb Yields Its Secrets
• Scientists Uncover Potential Drug Target to Block Cell Death in Parkinson's Disease
• Team Discovers Structure of Protein Essential for Quality Control, Nerve Function
• Micah Niphakis Receives ACS Scarborough Award

• Steroids that Only Nature Could Make on a Large Scale—Until Now
• Scientists Create New Approach to Destroying Disease-Associated RNAs in Cells
• Researchers Develop New Compound that Reverses Fatty Liver Disease
• Chemists Devise Inexpensive, Benchtop Method for Marking and Selecting Cells
• Study Defines Long-Sought Structure of a Protein Necessary for Cell-Cell Interaction
• Peter Vogt Named Albert Einstein Professor by Chinese Academy of Sciences; Leopold Kong Receives Fellowship for AIDS Research

Vol. 12 (2012)

December

• Letter from the President
• Scientists Identify Molecules in the Ear that Convert Sound into Brain Signals
• Scripps Research Institute Appoints Two Scientists from Harvard
• ‘SMART’ Teens Pair Up with TSRI Mentors
• Ten Tips for the Holidays
• Scripps Research Institute Awarded Four Stars from Charity Navigator; Guillaume Mousseau Receives SRF Travel Award

• Chemists Invent Powerful Toolkit, Accelerating Creation of Potential New Drugs
• Scientists Discover How Two Proteins Help Keep Cells Healthy
• TSRI Hosts Burgeoning Electron Microscopy Workshop
• Team Awarded $2.5 Million to Study Inner Workings of Memory Formation
• Dennis Fenton Joins Board of Trustees; Scripps Florida Education Outreach Receives Boost with $1 Million Grant from Kenan Charitable Trust; Suzanne Rzuczek Receives Myotonic Dystrophy Fellowship; Wang-Yong Yang Awarded Fellowship for Fragile X Research

• Team Describes Elusive Replication Machinery of Flu Viruses
• Department Reorganization Aims to Support Faculty, Build on Institute’s Strengths
• Scientists Identify a Potential Cause of Parkinson’s Disease that May Lead to New Treatment Options
• Study Points to Potential New Therapies for Cancer and Other Diseases
• Researchers Uncover a Novel Cooperative Effort to Stop Cancer Spread
• Four TSRI Scientists—Phil Baran, Hollis Cline, J. Lindsay Whitton, and Jin-Quan Yu—Elected AAAS Fellows; Krista Bluske, Christopher Haga and Valentina Lo Sardo Awarded Stem Cell Fellowships

• Researchers Uncover a New Pathway that Regulates Information Processing in the Brain
• Study Shows Protein-Making Machinery Can Switch Gears with a Small Structural Change
• Innovative Scientist Appointed to Metabolism and Aging Department
• Tobin Dickerson, Ian MacRae and Richard Milner Promoted to Associate Professor; Scripps CA Repeats Commuter Challenge Win

• Scientists Uncover Secrets of How Intellect and Behavior Emerge During Childhood
• Team Reveals Key Protein Interactions Involved in Neurodegenerative Disease
• TSRI Holds Inaugural Alumni Symposium
• Workshop: How Science and Social Media Can Mix
• Matthew Disney and Kate Carroll Win 2013 ACS Awards

• Meth Vaccine Shows Promising Results in Early Tests
• Genomics Study Shows Ancestry Could Help Solve Disease Riddles
• New Inhibitors of Elusive Enzymes Promise to Be Valuable Scientific Tools
• First Annual Scripps Florida Mentorship Award Honors John Cleveland
• Gerald Joyce Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Aaron Sather and Joseph Jardine Honored for Top Presentations at Lake Arrowhead Retreat; Research Fest Celebrates Seminar and Poster Winners; Ami Cohen, Marcus Muttenthaler and Hui Xiao Win SOF Travel Awards

October

• Research Suggests Caution and Further Studies on Drugs Used to Treat Macular Degeneration
• Discovery of Biological Energy-Sensing Switch Could Have Broad Implications for Biology and Medicine
• Team Receives $2.7 Million to Investigate Major Therapeutic Target
• Workshop Reveals Keys to Effective Networking
• Ryan Shenvi Receives New Investigator Award; Travis Hughes Receives Ruth Kirschstein Fellowship

• Study Suggests Binge Drinking Could Cause Significant Brain Impairment Within Months
• Scientist Awarded $1.6 Million to Develop Innovative Chemical Reactions as Tools for Preparing Rare Natural Products
• Reception Honors Audrey Geisel and Dr. Seuss Foundation for Donation to Upgrade Auditorium
• Julius Rebek Awarded Prelog Medal; Tony Amelio Receives Pathway to Independence Award

• Researchers Pinpoint Gene Variations Linked to Higher Risk of Bipolar Disorder
• Scientists Devise New Screening Method to Aid RNA Drug Development Research
• $2.1 Million Grant Funds Testing of Potential ALS Treatments
• Time Management: Conquering the Clock
• Phil Baran Wins Distinguished Scientist Award; Peterson-Loring Stem Cell Lab Manual Goes to Second Edition; Oktoberfest Success Benefits Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

• The Smell of Mom: Scientists Find Elusive Trigger of First Suckling in Mice
• Dale Boger Appointed as Chair of Department of Chemistry; Thomas Kodadek, Vice Chair
• Scientists Develop Novel Technology to Identify Potential Biomarkers for Ulcerative Colitis
• Snapshot: Geoff Graham
• Lerner Lab Technology Results in New Treatment for Ulcerative Colitis

• New Chemistry Technique Reproduces Nature’s Elusive Complexity
• Postdocs and Students Gather to Greet Their Colleagues and, Just Maybe, Their New Bosses
• Noted Biochemist Appointed to Molecular Therapeutics Faculty
• Matthew Cross Awarded American Cancer Society Fellowship; SOF Research Symposium Winners Announced

September

• Flu Antibody’s ‘One-Handed Grab’ May Boost Effort Toward Universal Vaccine, New Therapies
• New Center Receives $20 Million to Shed Light on HIV Drug Resistance
• Researchers Show Protein Linked to Hunger Also Implicated in Alcoholism
• Scientist Receives $2.8 Million to Study Critical Cell Signaling Mechanism and Develop Potential Therapeutics
• Ian Wilson Named 2012 Outstanding Mentor; Book by Dennis Burton and Colleagues Wins Top British Award; Nature Highlights Article from Rebek Lab

• Scientists Devise Powerful New Method for Finding Therapeutic Antibodies
• Researchers Reveal How Deadly Virus Silences Immune System
• Two Noted Scientists Appointed to Cancer Biology Faculty
• Expanding Database Enables Discoveries in Emerging Field of Metabolomics
• Erica Ollmann Saphire and Gavin Rumbaugh Receive Promotions

• Study Reveals Important Molecular Trigger for Wound Healing
• Scientists Design Molecule that Reverses Some Fragile X Syndrome Defects
• Team Receives $22.5 Million to Shed Light on the Immune System
• Two Noted Scientists Appointed to Metabolism and Aging Department
• Moody's Affirms Institute's Aa3 Credit Rating; Felding-Habermann Awarded New NIH ‘Provocative Question’ Grant; Bruce Maryanoff Wins E.B. Hershberg Award

August

• Team Describes Antibodies that Protect Against Large Variety of Flu Viruses
• Study Uncovers Link Between Hormone Levels and Risk for Metabolic Disease
• Scientists Show Copper Facilitates Prion Disease
• Team Awarded Nearly $1.5 Million to Develop New Approaches to Treat Cancer
• Dale Boger Wins Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry; David Gokhin Awarded Muscular Dystrophy Association Grant

• Neuroscientists Find Brain Stem Cells that May Be Responsible for Higher Functions, Bigger Brains
• Study Shows Two-Drug Combination Has Potential to Fight Cocaine Addiction
• Clinical Trials Start for Stroke Drug Developed by Scripps Research Institute, USC, and ZZ Biotech
• Scientist Awarded $1.9 Million to Study Food Intake and Metabolism
• Scripps Research Class of 2017 Arrives; Eveline Bouwens Wins American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Scientists Identify a Critical Tumor Suppressor for Cancer
• New Technique Reveals Cross-Talk Between Two Essential Cellular Processes
• Team Shows Potent New Compound Virtually Eliminates HIV in Cell Culture
• Scripps Research Appoints Cancer Biologist
• Takayuki Ota Wins HIV Research Award; Briana Weiser Receives Kirschstein National Research Service Award

July

• Team Wins $77 Million to Develop AIDS Vaccine Center
• Large, Medically Important Class of Proteins Starts to Yield Its Secrets
• Scientists Show Positive Memories Linger Longer
• Scripps Florida Appoints Innovative Neuroscientist
• Sotirios Totokotsopoulos Awarded BMS Fellowship

• Scientists Find Easier Way to Make New Drug Compounds
• Team Develops Alternative to Gene Therapy
• Researchers Identify Critical ‘Quality Control’ for Cell Growth
• Science Captures Teenager’s Sense of Wonder
• M.G. Finn Receives Humboldt Research Award; Nicole Schirle Wins Predoctoral Fellowship; BallenIsles Charities Supports Scripps Florida Education Outreach

June

• Scientists Show Lack of Single Protein Results in Persistent Viral Infection
• Team Identifies New Molecules Important for Vision and Brain Function
• Researchers Find Long-Sought Anti-HIV Compounds
• Scripps Florida Scientist Awarded $700,000 to Develop New Treatments for Cocaine Addiction

• Study Suggests Expanding the Genetic Alphabet May Be Easier than Previously Thought
• Scripps Research and Bristol-Myers Squibb Enter into Five-Year Collaboration
• Scientists Develop New Tools to Unveil Mystery of the 'Glycome'
• Team Wins $4.3 Million for Stem Cell Research in Multiple Sclerosis
• Katja Lamia Named Searle Scholar

• Study Reveals How the World’s First Drug for Amyloid Disease Works
• Esther B. O’Keeffe Foundation Gives $2 Million to Scripps Research
• Richard A. Lerner Wins Prince of Asturias Award
• Peter Farrell and Richard Sloane Elected to Board of Trustees
• Francisco Asturias and Claudio Joazeiro Receive Promotions, Ryan Baxter Awarded NIH Fellowship; Keary Engle and Will Gutekunst Win Roche Excellence in Chemistry Awards; Greg Tabor Receives 2012 Ford Fellowship

May

• New Screening Technique Yields Elusive Compounds
• Team Awarded $8.4 Million to Develop New Anti-Smoking Treatments
• The Class of 2012
• Scripps Research Celebrates 20th Commencement
• Chi-Huey Wong Awarded Nikkei Asia Prize; Adam Duerfeldt Receives American Cancer Society Fellowship

• Team Identifies Neurotransmitters that Lead to Forgetting
• Scientists Show How Memory B Cells Stay ‘In Class’ to Fight Different Infections
• Alliance Forges New Approaches to Human Lung Disease
• In Memoriam: James A. Fee (1939 – 2012)
• Parkinson’s Association Presents Check for Stem Cell Research; Keary Engle Receives National Green Chemistry Award

• Scientists Show How a Gene Duplication Helped our Brains Become ‘Human’
• Team Finds Anticonvulsant Drug Helps Marijuana Smokers Kick the Habit
• Study Reveals Dynamic Changes in Gene Regulation in Human Stem Cells
• Noted Neuroscientist Joins Faculty
• Scripps Research Hosts SMART Teams

• Researchers Find Structure of a Key ‘Gene Silencer’ Protein
• Scientists Solve a Mystery of Bacterial Growth and Resistance
• Lab Opens New Front in War on Common Retinal Diseases
• $1.5 Million Grant Funds Design of Therapeutics Targeting RNA
• Eric Topol Named Nation’s Top Physician Executive

• Scientists Develop Antidote for Cocaine Overdose
• Focusing on the Long Term: A Profile of Dale Boger
• Grant Renewal Extends Project Past 30-Year Mark
• Researcher Awarded $1 Million for Stress-Associated Disease and Aging Research
• Gerald F. Joyce Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

• Scientists Create Compounds that Dramatically Alter Biological Clock and Lead to Weight Loss
• Team Finds Promising Vaccine Targets on Hepatitis C Virus
• Researchers Shed Light on Age-Related Memory Loss and Possible Treatments
• Scientists Win $1 Million Grant to Develop New Tools for Hepatitis C Treatment Discovery
• Florida Group Raises $160,000 for Cancer Biology Fellowships; Paper from the MacRae and Carragher-Potter Labs Highlighted in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology; Owen Siggs Wins Found Animals Foundation Award

• Team Finds Atomic Structure of Molecule that Binds to Opioids in the Brain
• 60 Years in Science: An Interview with Charles Weissmann
• Scientists Win $2 Million to Study New Pathway Important in the Development and Maintenance of Lymphoma
• Scripps California Welcomes New Life Sciences Networking Group
• Charles Weissmann to Receive NYU Honorary Degree; Kim Janda Invited to Serve on NIH Grant Review Body; Seok-Kyu Kwon Awarded HFSP Fellowship

March

• Team Develops Simple Test to Predict Heart Attacks
• Scientists Wrest Partial Control of a Memory
• Department of Transport: A Profile of Sandra Encalada
• Scripps Research High School Program Receives CIRM Grant
• Potential Friedreich’s Ataxia Drug Based on Gottesfeld Lab Work Starts Clinical Trials

• In Memoriam:
  A. Donny Strosberg (1945-2012)
• Interactive Sculpture Bridges Art and Science
• License Paves Way for Development of Anti-Parkinson’s Disease Compound
• Snapshot: Michael Matrone
• Peter Schultz to Lead New Institute; Dennis Burton Delivers Bernard Fields Lecture; Yang Lab Paper Named ‘Paper of the Week’; More than 50 Fellows Honor Michael Oldstone; Xin Zhang Receives ACS Nobel Signature Award

• Scripps Research Institute Discoveries Lead to Newly Approved Drug for Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• NIH Executive Selected to Head Scientific Operations for Scripps Florida
• Scientists Uncover Inflammatory Circuit That Triggers Breast Cancer
• $3.85 Million NIH Grant Funds Development of New Class of Cancer Therapies
• Paul Kenny Named Mathilde Solowey Lecturer

• Scientists Identify Protein that Sends ‘Painful Touch’ Signals
• Team Creates Potent Molecules Aimed at Treating Muscular Dystrophy
• Collaboration Unlocks Evolutionary Secret of Blood Vessels
• Scripps Florida Scientists Awarded $3 Million to Develop New, More Effective Pain Treatments
• Scripps Florida Helps Mark Rare Disease Day; Symposium Celebrates Michael Oldstone’s Legacy of Mentorship

February

• Scientists Create Molecular Map to Guide Development of New Treatments for Multiple Sclerosis and Other Diseases
• Team Sheds Light on How Body Fends Off Bacteria
• Scientists Identify Most Lethal Known Species of Prion Protein
• Martha Fedor Promoted to Full Professor; Ashok Deniz Receives Tenure; Team Awarded Nearly $1.5 Million to Develop HIV Inhibitors; Jonathan Hollander Receives Pathway to Independence Award; PNAS Features Addiction Study

• Ultraviolet Protection Molecule in Plants Yields Its Secrets
• Life After Pfizer: Taking a Proactive Approach
• Discovery of Extremely Long-Lived Proteins May Provide Insight into Cell Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Scientists Develop Biological Computer to Encrypt and Decipher Images
• Scripps Research Awarded Four Stars from Charity Navigator; Scripps Research Licenses Compound Management Platform

• Team Demonstrates Effective New ‘Biopsy in a Blood Test’ to Detect Cancer
• Scientists Prove Plausibility of New Primordial Pathway to Life’s Chemical Building Blocks
• An Intriguing Combination in the Brain May Modify Our Appetites, Alter Other Key Processes
• Scripps Research Alumnus Wins International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge

January

• Scientists Illuminate Cancer Cells’ Survival Strategy During Dangerous Dissemination
• Scripps Research Names Peter K. Vogt as Senior Vice President for Scientific Affairs

• Scientists Provide New Understanding of Chronic Pain
• Team Creates Novel RNA Repair Technology
• Snapshot: Tatiana Domitrovic

• Against Metastasis: Brunhilde Felding-Habermann Works to Strip Away the Secrets of Cancer’s Dangerous Advance
• Scientists Paint New Picture of Dance Between Protein and Binding Partners
• Snapshot: Research Associate Sandro Matosevic

• Looking Ahead: An Interview with Michael A. Marletta
• Team Discovers a Brain Cell Malfunction in Schizophrenia
• Pair of Grants Funds Study of Critical Component of Memory
• Of Science, Spectrometry, and Senseis
• Blackmond Team Research Highlighted as 'Cutting Edge Chemistry in 2011'; Discover Names Loring Lab Research as Among Top 100 Stories in 2011; Science Business Lists Research from the Micalizio and Bohn Labs as Year’s Second-Most-Viewed Story

Vol. 11 (2011)

December

• Letter from the President: Year in Review
• Kate Carroll Challenges Conventional Wisdom
• Scientists Receive Grant to Pioneer Personalized Medicine Approach to Melanoma
• Mustache Challenge Raises $2,447 to Support Men’s Health Research; Scripps Florida ‘Sleigh’ Delivers Toys for Tots

• Jeopardy! Winnings Spur IBM and Scripps Research Collaboration to Fight Malaria
• Study Underlines Potential of Anti-Stress Peptide to Block Alcohol Dependence
• Researchers Uncover New Role for Gene in Maintaining Steady Weight
• Students Work for a Sustainable Future
• Ben Shen Named AAAS Fellow

• Team Finds Weak Spot on Deadly Ebolavirus
• Sanford Consortium Opening Celebrates Stem Cell Research on the Mesa
• Scientists Develop Brand New Class of Small Molecules through Innovative Chemistry
• Scripps Florida Scientist Awarded $3.4 Million for HIV/AIDS Research
• Kelly Lab Discovery Leads to European Approval of the Drug Tafamidis; Jeffery W. Kelly Wins ACS Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry; Scripps Research Graduate Students Named ARCS Scholars; Alex Price Wins Hall Memorial Travel Award

• Scientists Identify New Class of Antimalarial Compounds
• Team Finds Potential Achilles’ Heel on Lassa Fever and Related Viruses
• Scripps Florida Rolls Out 50th Anniversary Carpet with Concert and Cake
• Matt Disney Receives the ACS Carbohydrate Division's David Y. Gin Award; Alexander Price Wins Tony B. Academic Travel Award; Scripps California Places First Again in Alternative Commuting Challenge

• Scientists Identify New Class of Antimalarial Compounds
• Team Finds Potential Achilles’ Heel on Lassa Fever and Related Viruses
• Scripps Florida Rolls Out 50th Anniversary Carpet with Concert and Cake
• Matt Disney Receives the ACS Carbohydrate Division's David Y. Gin Award; Alexander Price Wins Tony B. Academic Travel Award; Scripps California Places First Again in Alternative Commuting Challenge

• Team Achieves Critical Step for Opening Elusive Class of Compounds to Drug Discovery
• Scientist Wins $1 Million Drug Development Grant from Novo Nordisk
• Photo Album: 50th Anniversary Gala
• Joel Buxbaum Wins Ellison Senior Scholarship in Aging

• From Curiosity to Click Chemistry: K. Barry Sharpless Forges His Own Way
• Scripps Research Appoints Noted Autism Researcher to Neuroscience Faculty
• Snapshot: Andrea Zuhl
• Jin-Quan Yu Wins 2012 Mukaiyama Award; James Lajiness Receives 2011 Lesly Starr Shelton Award

October

• The Molecular Architect: A Profile of Julius Rebek, Jr.
• Scientist Awarded $500,000 Grant from Michael J. Fox Foundation to Study Parkinson Disease
• BioFlorida Career Forum Gives Postdocs a Look Ahead
• Graham Johnson’s 3D Animation Selected Finalist in NSF Competition; Graduate Student-Faculty Retreat Symposium Winners Announced; CA SOF Awards Travel Grants

• Scientists Discover Inflammation Is Controlled Differently in Brain and Other Tissues
• Donny Strosberg Straddles the Worlds of Science and Business
• ScrippsAssists Celebrates Volunteers
• Title
• Peter Thuy-Boun Wins EPA Fellowship; Science Striders Step Out for Diabetes Cause