Research & Faculty

Molecular Therapeutics

Chairman's Overview

The Department of Molecular Therapeutics under the direction of Professor Patrick R. Griffin was established at Scripps Florida in 2007. The newly formed department focuses on chemical biology approaches to dissecting signaling pathways and transcriptional programs, using state-of-the-art, multi-disciplinary technology and methodology and a variety of model systems for target identification, validation and pre-clinical studies. Currently there are five tenure track faculty in the department. These investigators have created strong research programs that take advantage of the unique high-throughput core facilities of Scripps Florida, including genomics, cell-based screening, proteomics, X-Ray crystallography, informatics and lead optimization.