Capital Projects & Naming Opportunities

Investing in critically needed buildings, laboratories and equipment helps ensure that The Scripps Research Institute can embrace the future with confidence.

Donors who invest in nonprofit capital projects at Scripps Research not only receive tremendous tax benefits, but they also help create state-of-the-art facilities that yield some of the world's most promising research.

In Florida, a gift of $10 million will name one of three new buildings in Palm Beach County. In California, a gift of $8 million will name the immunology building.

Learn more about capital projects and naming opportunities in:

Scripps Research — California Campus

Buildings and Laboratories

Gifts can be made to fund the purchase of much-needed equipment or to support the renovation of existing facilities.

Scripps Research enjoys one of the world's leading private computational capabilities, with an array of computers that includes a Cray supercomputer. Research is also supported by x-ray crystallography laboratories, high performance NMR spectrometry including state-of-the-art 900 and 750 MHz instruments, electron microscopy, optical spectroscopy, a centralized DNA sequencing laboratory, and a fluorescence-activated cell-sorting facility.

Scripps Research scientists require state-of-the-art facilities and equipment to remain on the cutting edge of research and rapidly advancing technology. New laboratory equipment is continually being developed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of basic research, and new technology provides ever-shorter paths from discoveries to application to prediction, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. Your support is critically important to support the ongoing modernization of laboratories at the Institute.

Immunology Department

In 1961, internationally acclaimed immunologist Frank J. Dixon, Jr., M.D., came to the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation — along with a team of young scientists that included Charles G. Cochrane, M.D., who retired as Professor of Immunology in 2005 — to establish a department of experimental pathology — the genesis of The Scripps Research Institute.

Today, Scripps Research scientists focus on potential solutions for some of the world's most puzzling and pernicious diseases: lupus, diabetes, arthritis, prion disease, HIV, Ebola virus, bacterial meningitis, chronic inflammatory disease, cancer, and many others.

Using bonds, Scripps Research recently purchased its immunology building, designed specifically for this important department and located near both of the Institute's other signature buildings—the Beckman Building and the Skaggs Building. A naming gift of $8 million for the immunology building will assure the donor an unparalleled opportunity for legacy.

Other Naming Opportunities

Other naming opportunities in the immunology building include the following:

• Laboratory Floor $1,000,00
• Large Conference Room $200,000
• Individual Laboratory $75,000

Scripps Florida

For further information on naming opportunities in Florida, please contact Alex Bruner at (561) 228-2013 or abruner@scripps.edu.

Naming Opportunities

Zeidler Partnership Architects of Toronto, Canada, selected a 21^st Century theme design for the Scripps Florida campus projects. The buildings use a bright palate of colors for its tropical setting — silver, cool green, grey-blue, and terra cotta. The three buildings encompass more than 350,000 square feet situated around a small lake designed to attract wildlife and to serve as a reflecting pool for the new structures. The emblem for the project is an 8.4 ton galvanized steel tower that tops the central building of the trio. Its twisting shape evokes the double helix shape of DNA. Rising to a point 134 feet above the ground and visible from Interstate 95, the tower was engineered to withstand 140 mph winds.

Central to the campus are a series of spaces intended to stimulate interaction among scientists and to encourage serendipitous discovery as active minds bump into one another in corridors, elevator lobbies and seating nooks. As a rare case of a scientific institute assembled as a unit, there are no artifacts of an earlier scientific era to force compromise. Scripps Florida's campus is a first-rate addition to the international science community.

The spaces are:  

• Building (A) is the home to most of the key components of the Scripps discovery pipeline. A pair of Kalypsys robot arms anchor the Scripps Florida screening center with its library of 700,000 chemical compounds for testing against biological activity of interest to our basic scientists. At the headquarters for Scripps Florida's medicinal and synthetic chemistry teams, the structures of promising compounds are copied, studied and altered to increase efficacy and to reduce unwanted side effects of potential drugs. Groups working in Chemical Biology, Discovery Biology and Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics develop strategic scientific plans and undertake experiments to accelerate the translation of basic science findings into their clinical application.

• As the headquarters and nerve center for the complex, Building (B) in the trio hosts a multitude of human interactions. At its core is an educational pavilion with two classrooms and a large auditorium that host many scientific symposia. A large cafeteria opening onto a lakeside terrace creates a bustle of daily traffic and activity. On the second floor, a library and informatics center are adjacent to a Founders Suite where board meetings and other important functions take place. Basic researchers in Genomics and Protein Sciences occupy labs in the building along with an important microscopy center for the campus.

• Laboratories for Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Infectology make the Building (C) a hive of exciting research. Using the most sophisticated tools of computation, molecular biology, and human genetics, the scientists in these groups help to unravel some of the most vexing questions of human biology and disease. Through interactions with colleagues at the Scripps Research California Campus and at other institutions, these teams take advantage of Scripps Florida's gathering of some of the world's most sophisticated talent and tools for drug discovery. The success of these efforts holds great promise to streamline the agonizingly slow process of therapeutics development.

The following naming opportunities are available for Scripps Florida:

Florida Building (A)

FIRST FLOOR

• (4) Research Suites $1,000,000 - $3,500,000
  • Ultra High Throughput Robotics
  • Magnetic Resonance
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • X-Ray
• Symposium Room $350,000
• Conference Room $250,000

SECOND FLOOR

• (4) Research Suites $1,000,000 - $3,500,000
  • Medicinal Chemistry
  • Chemical Biology
  • Discovery Biology
  • Drug Metabolism & Pharmacokinetics
• Chairman's Office $250,000
• (2) Conference Rooms $250,000 each

THIRD FLOOR

• (1) Research Suite $1,000,000 - $3,500,000
  • Synthetic Chemistry
• Chairman's Office $250,000
• (2) Conference Rooms $250,000 each

Florida Building (B)

FIRST FLOOR

• Science Education Pavilion $2,000,000
• Auditorium $1,000,000
• Lakeside Plaza $500,000
• Microscopy Suite $500,000
• (2) Science Education Pavilion classrooms $250,000 each

SECOND FLOOR

• Founder's Suite $2,000,000
• Library $1,000,000
• IT/Informatics Suite $1,000,000
• Conference Room $250,000

THIRD FLOOR

• (2) Research Suites $1,000,000 - $3,500,000
  • Genomics
  • Protein Sciences

FOURTH FLOOR

• Executive Suite $500,000
• Partners Suite $250,000
• Philanthropy Suite $250,000
• (3) Conference Rooms $250,000 each

Florida Building (C)

FIRST FLOOR

• Vivarium $500,000

SECOND FLOOR

• Atrium $750,000
• Research Suite $1,000,000 - $3,500,000
  • Cancer Biology
• Discovery Lounge $350,000
• Chairman's Office $250,000
• (2) Conference Rooms $250,000 each

THIRD FLOOR

• (3) Research Suites $1,000,000 - $3,500,000
  • Infectology
  • Cell Biology
  • Neurobiology
• Chairman's Office $250,000
• (2) Conference Rooms $250,000 each

Common to all three Scripps Florida Buildings

LABORATORIES

• Multiple $250,000 - $350,000 each

OFFICES

• Professors $150,000
• Assistant/Associate Professors $100,000
• Post Doctoral Fellows $75,000 - $100,000
• Research Scientists $75,000
• Student Fellows $50,000 - $75,000