Skaggs Family Renews Its Support for TSRI Research

The Scripps Research Institute’s (TSRI) most generous donor—the Skaggs family—has renewed its support of the institute with a $207,000 gift through The ALSAM Foundation.

“I would like to express my deep appreciation for the ALSAM Foundation contribution,” said Jim Paulson, TSRI’s acting president and CEO. “I am delighted that members of the ALSAM grants committee—including TSRI Trustees Claudia Skaggs Luttrell and Mark Skaggs—are continuing to demonstrate their far-sighted commitment to improving human health through biomedical science.”

The new donation will support the training of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the laboratories of TSRI Professors Kim Janda and Jeffery Kelly.

The gift follows presentations by Janda, Ely R. Callaway, Jr. Professor of Chemistry and Skaggs Scholar at The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at TSRI, and Kelly, Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Chemistry and chair of TSRI’s Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, at the L.S. Skaggs Biomedical Research Symposium last year in Missoula, Montana.

The ALSAM Foundation is named in honor of the late philanthropist and entrepreneur L.S. “Sam” Skaggs Jr. and his wife, Aline. The foundation supports a variety of causes and organizations and is committed to improving the lives of people around the world.

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