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11/09/2026
Scientists discover a new way that a disease-linked protein comes apart
LA JOLLA, CA-Transthyretin amyloid disease (ATTR) is a progressive, life-threatening condition caused when the protein transthyretin (TTR) breaks apart and aggr...
05/09/2026
Scripps Research professor Chi-Huey Wong to receive ACS Alfred Bader Award
LA JOLLA, CA-In recognition of his exceptional work to understand the chemistry of carbohydrates and the role they play in health and disease, Scripps Family Ch...
02/09/2026
New design strategy expands nanoparticle vaccine approach to influenza viruses
LA JOLLA, CA-Influenza viruses constantly shapeshift to evade recognition by the immune system. This shapeshifting occurs in critical proteins like hemagglutini...
02/09/2026
New AI algorithm could improve detection and prediction of heart diseases
LA JOLLA, CA-Clinicians often use a medical test called a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) to diagnose heart problems, which uses electrodes placed on the chest ...
02/09/2026
Where milliseconds matter: Scripps Research scientists build new ML model to predict protein movements essential for biological function
LA JOLLA, CA-Proteins may look like rigid molecular structures, but inside our c...
28/08/2026
Scripps Research establishes endowed fund honoring institute president and CEO Pete Schultz
LA JOLLA, CA-Scripps Research has established the Pete Schultz Fund for Innovati...
28/08/2026
Chemists develop simpler method to make molecular building block for drug development
LA JOLLA, CA-Chemical structures called cyclopropanols are among the most useful...
26/08/2026
Scripps Research and collaborators awarded $19.5 million to establish an open-access autonomous chemistry laboratory
LA JOLLA, CA-Recent advances in robotics, automation and artificial intelligence...
26/08/2026
Scripps Research professor Jeffery Kelly elected to the European Academy of Engineering
LA JOLLA, CA-Jeffery Kelly, the H. Lutcher Brown Professor of Chemistry at Scrip...
20/08/2026
Scripps Research scientist to receive $2.76 million NIAID New Innovators Award
LA JOLLA, CA-Scripps Research assistant professor Tiantian Liu has received a five-year NIAID DP2 award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Di...
18/08/2026
Paying It Forward: Greg Tabor on Giving Back to the Next Generation
The relationships built during graduate school often continue to shape careers long after a degree is earned, creating a community of scientists who learn from ...
13/08/2026
Scripps Research establishes endowed chair honoring Peter K. Vogt, influential pioneer in cancer research
Scripps Research has established the Peter K. Vogt Endowed Chair, a new faculty ...
13/08/2026
New research offers fresh insights for how to make better vaccines
LA JOLLA, CA-A vaccine's molecular structure plays a key role in determining how the immune system responds and prepares to protect the body from future exp...
12/08/2026
A double off-switch helps cells respond to stress
LA JOLLA, CA-Scientists at Scripps Research have discovered that two seemingly unrelated cellular enzymes become locked together during times of stress, simulta...
06/08/2026
NIH expected to award Scripps Research nearly $4.2 million over 5 years to advance tools for vaccine design
LA JOLLA, CA-Scripps Research has received more than $500,000 in first-year fund...
06/08/2026
Improving vaccine design for Ebola, HIV and more
LA JOLLA, CA-Viruses are masters at invading our cells thanks to specialized proteins that coat their surfaces. When scientists design vaccines, they often crea...
06/08/2026
How a chemical reaction triggers brain inflammation in Alzheimer's disease
LA JOLLA, CA-The brain has its own immune system, which detects threats and mounts a defense. A growing body of evidence has shown that in Alzheimer's disea...
06/08/2026
Jin-Quan Yu elected to the National Academy of Sciences
LA JOLLA, CA-Scripps Research chemist Jin-Quan Yu has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest honors a scientist can achieve....
06/08/2026
Scripps Research ranks third in 2026 Cure Innovation Index
LA JOLLA, CA-Scripps Research ranked third in the inaugural 2026 Cure Innovation Index recognizing the top-performing institutes and centers across the United S...
06/08/2026
Scripps Research chemist Benjamin Cravatt elected to American Philosophical Society
Benjamin Cravatt, the Gilula Chair of Chemical Biology and a professor of chemis...
06/08/2026
Scripps Research immunologist Dennis Burton elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
LA JOLLA, CA-Dennis Burton, professor and the James & Jessie Minor Chair in Immu...
06/08/2026
How changes to proteins can alter drug interactions for new precision therapies
LA JOLLA, CA-Inside every human cell, proteins are constantly being tagged with small chemical modifications after they're produced. Known as post-translati...
06/08/2026
Scripps Research establishes endowed chair honoring renowned structural biologist Ian Wilson
LA JOLLA-Scripps Research has established the Ian Wilson Endowed Chair, a new fa...
06/08/2026
Scripps Research's Skaggs Graduate School awards doctoral degrees to 34th graduating class
Scripps Research's Skaggs Graduate School of Chemical and Biological Science...
06/08/2026
Scripps Research chemist Jin-Quan Yu is named a Fellow of the Royal Society
LA JOLLA, CA-Professor Jin-Quan Yu of Scripps Research has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the U.K.'s national academy of sciences and ...
06/08/2026
Experimental HIV vaccine achieves a long-sought goal
LA JOLLA, CA-For years, researchers have been hoping for vaccines that protect people against not just one strain of HIV, but every strain of the quickly mutati...
06/08/2026
Calibr-Skaggs advances CLF065, a regenerative GLP-2 therapy, into two Phase 2 IBD studies
LA JOLLA, CA-The Calibr-Skaggs Institute for Innovative Medicines, the nonprofit...
06/08/2026
Chemists snap together complex 3D molecules from highly reactive radicals'-without losing their shape
LA JOLLA, CA-Building the complex 3D molecules needed for new medicines has alwa...
06/08/2026
A fentanyl countermeasure that adapts to combat future black-market drugs
LA JOLLA, CA-Fentanyl and related variants of the synthetic opioid kill more Americans each year than car accidents and gun violence combined. In too-high doses...
06/08/2026
Two Scripps Research assistant professors named 2026 Baxter Young Investigators
LA JOLLA, CA-What do decoding communication between organs and reimagining the future of genome editing have in common? They're among the scientific questio...
06/08/2026
Calibr-Skaggs awarded $5.1M by NIH to develop long-acting hepatitis B virus therapy
LA JOLLA, CA-Of the 1.2 million people living with HIV in the United States, app...
06/08/2026
Lab studies explain how new cancer drug works as it enters patient testing
LA JOLLA, CA-For some people, cancer immunotherapies are life-changing. These treatments can turn the body's own immune system against a tumor, either elimi...
06/08/2026
Newly identified molecule strengthens the eye's response to damage in retinal disease
LA JOLLA, CA-Many conditions that cause vision loss share a common feature: the ...
06/08/2026
Molecular scissors caught in action: A structural blueprint for RNA therapeutics
LA JOLLA, CA-RNA interference is a natural mechanism for living cells to control whether specific genes are being used or not. Crowned with the 2006 Nobel Priz...
06/08/2026
Immune molecule may drive excessive drinking in alcohol use disorder
LA JOLLA, CA-The drugs that keep rheumatoid arthritis in check may one day help people stop drinking. A new Scripps Research study shows that an anti-inflammato...
06/08/2026
Back in action: Researchers make drug-resistant bacteria vulnerable again
LA JOLLA, CA-Antibiotic resistance is one of the most urgent threats to global health, linked to an estimated 4.7 million deaths worldwide in 2019 alone. As mor...
06/08/2026
Scripps Research scientists demonstrate a faster, cheaper route to making critical drugs using common table sugar
LA JOLLA, CA-Some of the world's best-selling diabetes drugs depend on a che...
06/08/2026
Scripps Research scientists awarded $2M to advance global disease surveillance
LA JOLLA, CA-Detecting infectious disease threats early and responding quickly can dramatically alter the course of an infectious outbreak. Technologies such as...
06/08/2026
Joan Pulupa joins Scripps Research faculty to study the organization of DNA in brain cells and its links to neurodegeneration
LA JOLLA, CA-Molecular biophysicist Joan Pulupa will join Scripps Research in Ja...
06/08/2026
Scripps Research scientists train the immune system to make antibodies against numerous HIV strains
LA JOLLA, CA-HIV is globally so diverse, consisting of hundreds of thousands of ...
07/07/2026
July 06, 2026
Scripps Research scientists train the immune system to make antibodies against numerous HIV strains Preclinical findings mark progress toward a long-sought vacc...
03/07/2026
July 01, 2026
Scripps Research scientists awarded $2M to advance global disease surveillance Two Gates Foundation grants will expand wastewater surveillance and AI-driven dis...
03/07/2026
July 02, 2026
Joan Pulupa joins Scripps Research faculty to study the organization of DNA in brain cells and its links to neurodegeneration Using smell-sensing neurons and ad...
30/06/2026
June 29, 2026
Scripps Research scientists demonstrate a faster, cheaper route to making critical drugs using common table sugar New method illustrates how to build a tough ch...
25/06/2026
June 24, 2026
Immune molecule may drive excessive drinking in alcohol use disorder Scripps Research scientists showed that blocking an immune molecule tied to inflammation r...
23/06/2026
June 22, 2026
Newly identified molecule strengthens the eye's response to damage in retinal disease Scripps Research discovery finds that restoring the naturally occurrin...
19/06/2026
June 18, 2026
Lab studies explain how new cancer drug works as it enters patient testing Immunologists at Scripps Research show how a new, experimental drug revives immune ce...
17/06/2026
June 16, 2026
Calibr-Skaggs awarded $5.1M by NIH to develop long-acting hepatitis B virus therapy A new program aims to replace a daily HBV drug with once-monthly or even qua...
12/06/2026
June 11, 2026
A fentanyl countermeasure that adapts to combat future black-market drugs Scripps Research scientists developed a vaccine that teaches the immune system to rapi...
10/06/2026
June 10, 2026
Chemists snap together complex 3D molecules from highly reactive radicals-without losing their shape Scripps Research team develops stereoretentive radical-radi...
