Scientific Activities
The institute is organized into several research units, each of which is further composed of several scientific groups, each led by a member of the faculty. Some of these units are:
- Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory
- Regulatory Biology Laboratory
- Structural Biology Laboratory
- Gene Expression Laboratory
- Laboratory of Genetics
- Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
- Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory
- Systems Neurobiology Laboratories
- Computational Neurobiology Laboratory
- Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology
- Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory
- Chemical Biology and Proteomics Laboratory
- Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Laboratory
- The Renato Dulbecco Laboratories for Cancer Research
The institute is currently led by Dr William Brody, who assumed charge from interim President Roger Guillemin on 1 March 2009. There are 59 faculty members (assistant, associate and full professor level). Eight of these are members of the HHMI while more than a quarter are members of the NAS.
In terms of research output measured by number of publications and citations, the institute is recognized as one of the world's leading institutions in several areas of biology, but especially so in neurosciences and plant biology.
In December 2009, the Time magazine ranked Joe Ecker's mapping of the human epigenome as the #2 biggest scientific achievement of 2009.
In May 2008, California announced that it would provide 270 million US dollars for funding CIRM, a joint effort between Salk Institute, UCSD, Burnham Institute and TSRI.
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