Scripps Research Institute - Structure

Structure

The California campus is located on 35 acres (140,000 m2) of land between the Torrey Pines State Reserve and the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla. In Florida, Scripps occupies 30 acres (120,000 m2) adjacent to the John D. MacArthur campus of Florida Atlantic University in Palm Beach County, Florida. TSRI has departments of cancer biology, cell biology, chemistry, genetics, immunology and microbial science, infectology, molecular biology, molecular and experimental medicine, molecular therapeutics, chemical physiology, neurobiology, molecular and integrative neurosciences, neurobiology of addictive disorders, aging and metabolism, and translational research. In addition, it incorporates:

• The Skaggs Institute for Chemical biology
• The Pearson Center for Alcoholism and Addiction Research
• The Dorris Neuroscience Center
• The Center for Integrative Molecular Biosciences
• The Kellogg School of Science and Technology
• The Worm Institute for Research and Medicine
• The Center for Regenerative Medicine
• The Scripps Energy & Materials Center
• The Translational Research Institute

The current president and chief executive officer of TSRI is Michael Marletta. Marletta recently replaced Richard Lerner who stepped down in 2012, after having led the Institute for 25 years. Among the 265 members of faculty are notable chemists and biologists, including Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou, Roy A. Periana, William R. Roush, Paul Schimmel, Ian Wilson, Dale L. Boger, Charles Weissmann, Peter G. Schultz, John R. Yates, Benjamin Cravatt III, Gerald F. Joyce, Raymond C. Stevens and Peter Wright as well as Nobel Laureates Gerald Edelman, Kurt Wüthrich, K. Barry Sharpless and Bruce Beutler.

The Scripps Research Institute was noted as a standout in the Science Watch survey of "high-impact" papers in chemistry published between 1997 and 2008, ranked number one worldwide by citations per paper. Another measure of productivity, the Hirsch index (which has been published by Chemistry World), placed seven Scripps Research scientists— Wüthrich, Nicolaou, Sharpless, Richard Lerner, Yates, Schultz, and Chi-Huey Wong—in the top 100 of 2,000 chemists rated. Recently Science Watch placed Sharpless and Valery V. Fokin within Top 10 list of its "Top 100 Chemists 2000-2010" based on citations impact; other faculty in the list were Carlos F. Barbas, M. G. Finn and John R. Yates.

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography is often incorrectly associated with TSRI; it is in fact a nearby research facility that is part of UCSD. TSRI is a private institute not directly associated with UCSD. Confusingly, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography was once called the Scripps Institution for Biological Research.