Winter 2019
Education: Our Infinite Promise to Science
Science Changing Careers
Science Changing Careers
Stepping Into The Future
Alumni of the Skaggs Graduate School at Scripps Research apply their education and training to a range of careers.
Science Changing Lives
Science Changing Lives
Perspectives
What has your education or contribution to education at Scripps Research meant to you?
Science Changing Education
Science Changing Education
Show me the data
Science relies on good data to validate research quality. The Scripps Research scientific education programs produce top quality results.
Science Changing Life
Science Changing Life
Infinite Human Progress
How do you give a makeover to a nearly 100-year-old institution, founded by a philanthropic icon and respected worldwide?
President’s Letter
Dean Philip Dawson, PhD, shines a light on the multitude of complementary educational programs at Scripps Research
When knowledge is shared, new roads to discovery open and we gain added capabilities to harness science for the benefit of humankind. Science not only builds on the past, it also lays a foundation for the future.
Awards & Honors
2019 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award
Scientific publisher Elsevier has awarded the 2019 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award to Ryan Shenvi, PhD, an associate professor at Scripps Research.
Awards & Honors
International Mass Spectrometry Foundation: Thomson Medal
John Yates III, PhD, has been awarded the Thomson Medal from the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation for his “invention of mass spectrometry and informatics methods to analyze protein expression, protein interactions and modifications.”
Awards & Honors
2018 Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant
Chemist Keary Engle, PhD, an assistant professor, has been awarded the 2018 Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry.
Awards & Honors
Translational Institute secures renewed NIH funding
The Scripps Research Translational Institute has received over $34 million in renewed funding from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences to advance medical research and clinical care through genomic and digital technologies.
Awards & Honors
Quest for safer pain medications garners $3.6 million, five-year grant
The National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a five-year, $3.68 million grant to two Scripps Research scientists, Laura Bohn, PhD, and Thomas Bannister, PhD, to advance their work developing safer pain medications.
Awards & Honors
2018 Weaver H. Gaines Entrepreneur of the Year
Florida’s statewide biotechnology industry organization, BioFlorida, named Matthew Disney, PhD, the 2018 Weaver H. Gaines Entrepreneur of the Year.
Awards & Honors
Ben Cravatt receives Outstanding Investigator Award from National Cancer Institute
Scripps Research chemical biologist Benjamin Cravatt, PhD, has received a National Cancer Institute (NCI) Outstanding Investigator Award to support the development of advanced technologies for discovering and advancing new cancer targets and drugs.
Awards & Honors
Michael Erb receives NIH Director’s Early Independence Award
The Early Independence Award is given to junior scientists who quickly launch independent research careers, bypassing the traditional postdoctoral training period.
Awards & Honors
2019 Priestley Medal goes to K. Barry Sharpless
The American Chemical Society has awarded the 2019 Priestley Medal to Nobel laureate K. Barry Sharpless, PhD, W.M. Keck Professor of Chemistry at Scripps Research.
Awards & Honors
With grant, Thomas Kodadek to lead new research into faster, cheaper drug candidate screening
An innovative proposal to dramatically reduce the cost of drug discovery has won Scripps Research chemist Thomas Kodadek, PhD, one of ten Transformative Research awards from the Director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, MD, PhD.
Awards & Honors
2018 Outstanding Mentor Award
Wendy Havran, PhD, a professor at Scripps Research and associate dean of the Skaggs Graduate School of Chemical and Biological Sciences, was recently named the 2018 Outstanding Mentor by the Society of Fellows, a postdoctoral organization at Scripps Research.
