Scripps Research Institute
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is a medical research facility that focuses on research in the basic biomedical sciences.
The institute, primarily located in La Jolla, California, is home to 3,000 scientists, technicians, graduate students, and administrative and other staff, making it among the largest private, non-profit biomedical research organizations in the world. It has departments of cell biology, chemistry, immunology, molecular biology, molecular and experimental medicine, neurobiology, and molecular and integrative neurosciences. In addition, it incorporates:
- The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology
- The Pearson Center for Alcoholism and Addiction Research
- The Harold L. Dorris Neurological Research Center
- The Helen L. Dorris Child and Adolescent Neuro-Psychiatric Disorder Institute
- The Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases
- The Center for Integrative Molecular Biosciences
TSRI also hosts graduate programs in biology, biophysics, chemical biology and chemistry at the Kellogg School of Science and Technology, named in honor of philanthropists Janet R. Kellogg and W. Keith Kellogg II. In 2002 the Kellogg School was ranked among the top science graduate programs in the USA, according to U.S. News & World Report [1] (pdf).
Among the 293 members of faculty, the institute is home to notable chemists Richard Lerner, Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou, and Peter Schultz, as well as Nobel Laureates Gerald Edelman, Kurt Wuthrich and K. Barry Sharpless.
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography is often incorrectly associated with TSRI, which is a neighboring but independent research facility.
TSRI is currently in the process of developing a sister campus in Palm Beach County, Florida, aptly called Scripps Florida.
