In Brief
NARSD Selects Bartfai, Fish to Receive Awards
Two investigators at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI),
Assistant Professor Kenneth Fish and Professor Tamas Bartfai,
were recently honored by the National Alliance for Research
on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), the largest non-governmental
organization funding brain research worldwide. Fish won a
Young Investigator Award and Bartfai, a Distinguished Investigator
Award. Both Bartfai and Fish conduct their research at TSRI's
newly formed Harold L. Dorris Neurological Research Center,
which Bartfai directs.
2002 Scientific Report Now Available Online
The 2002 Scientific Report is now available online
at http://www.scripps.edu/research/sr2002/.
2003 Scientific Report Submissions Due May 2
All submissions for the 2003 Scientific Report are
due at noon on Friday, May 2. This year, investigators may
submit their report in one of two ways: o By putting the submission
on a disk and giving it with a printout to the departmental
administrator (as reports have been submitted in the past),
o By sending a file via email to Jann Coury of the Office
of Communications at jcoury@scripps.edu
and giving a printout to the departmental administrator. PDF
files of the submission guidelines are also available online
at http://www.scripps.edu/research/.
In addition, for investigators who hold joint appointments
in The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, the Skaggs Institute
submissions will be due Friday, September 12. Letters and
guidelines will be sent to the members later this summer.
New English-as-a-Second-Language Class Begins
A new English-as-a-second-language class will begin Tuesday,
April 22. Instructor Cassandra Wadkin's class meets from 6:30
to 8:30 every Tuesday evening in the Immunology Building West
Conference Room. The price for three months (12 classes) is
$60. Each intermediate-level English class is divided into
speaking and listening, idioms and vocabulary, and reading
and writing. If you would like to improve your English communication
skills and better understand your friends and colleagues,
movies, television shows, and the news, this class is for
you. The instructor uses movies, games, television shows,
grammar books, songs, drawing, and novels to teach standard
American English. For more information, please leave a message
at x4-2176.
Medical Plan Reminder: Emergency Treatment Benefits
If you are covered under the TSRI Medical Plan, you are required
to contact Principal at the number located on the back of
your benefits card within 24 hours after being admitted to
a hospital for emergency treatment in order to receive the
maximum in-network benefit. If you or one of your dependents
requires treatment for a medical emergency and cannot get
to a CCN provider, benefits for treatment received will be
paid at the same coinsurance rate as a network provider as
long as Principal is notified within 24 hours of hospital
admission. Please note that not all emergency room physicians
of a CCN network hospital are in the CCN network. If you see
the attending emergency physician for follow up treatment,
that physician must be in the CCN network in order for you
to receive the maximum level of coverage. For more information,
refer to the Summary Plan
Descriptions or call the Benefits Line at x4-8487.
TB Screenings, Hepatitis B Immunizations, Serum Draws,
and Tetanus Immunizations
On Monday, April 28, Wednesday, April 30, and Friday, May
2, personnel from Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group will be
onsite to conduct TB screenings, Hepatitis B immunizations,
serum draws, and tetanus immunizations. The clinics will be
conducted at the Administrative Offices (3301 North Torrey
Pines Court) on the P1 level from 11 AM to 2 PM. No appointments
are necessary. TB screening requires a 48 to 72 hour follow-up.
Individuals receiving the TB screen on Monday will need to
return on Wednesday, and individuals screened on Wednesday
will need to return on Friday. Initiation of the TB screening
process will not be available on Friday, but hepatitis B immunization,
serum draws, and tetanus immunizations will be. To learn more
about these programs, see the Environmental
Health & Safety Occupational Medicine web page, which
includes a map and patient information sheets.
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