Philanthropy

Helen Dorris: The Work of Scripps

Helen Dorris is a welcome guest at The Scripps Research Institute. Busy researchers greet her in the hallway and stop to discuss current projects. More than a supporter, she is their friend.

Helen takes a keen interest in the neurosciences and has helped bring several researchers to Scripps Research to explore the mysteries of Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, and other brain disorders.

She is proud of the research she supports but shies away from taking any credit.

“What’s important is the work these people are doing,” says Helen. “They should have the glory.”

Helen has made gifts of real estate to Scripps Research to establish a fellowship to study schizophrenia and to create both the Helen L. Dorris Child and Adolescent Neuro-Psychiatric Disorder Institute and the Harold L. Dorris Neurological Research Institute.

The institutes, now the home of some of the world’s top brain researchers, study the pathological basis of neurological and psychiatric disorders and work to discover promising new therapeutic approaches.

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