Scripps Research Institute

The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is an American medical research facility that focuses on research in the basic biomedical sciences. Headquartered in La Jolla, California. the institute 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.

Programs

At The Scripps Research Institute, the pursuit of scientific excellence takes an interdisciplinary approach.  While the faculty are organized into 15 academic departments, these departments have soft boundaries.  Rather than defining circumscribed areas of research and isolating faculty members and laboratories into separate and distinct disciplines, the cooperative, collaborative spirit is encouraged and embraced. 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 Kellogg School of Science and Technology Graduate Program at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has a single educational objective: to train the next generation of scientists in the biological and chemical sciences.

The most recent graduate school rankings by US News and World Report places TSRI's program as 7th in chemistry (3rd in Organic Chemistry) and 7th in biological sciences.

Campuses

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.

The Florida campus of TSRI operates a 350,000-square-foot (33,000 m²) state-or-the-art biomedical research facility focusing on neuroscience, cancer biology, medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, biotechnology, and alternative energy development. Approximately 430 faculty, staff and students occupy TSRI's Florida campus.

Briana Weiser
Second Year Student, Infectology
B.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Vanderbilt University

"The ability to do research at a top-ten program, with a unique setting that blends academia and industry with a strong focus on translational research. I've also had the rare opportunity to become very involved in shaping the program here at Scripps Florida."