Unrestricted Major Giving

With unrestricted gifts, Scripps Research has been able to recruit internationally recognized new scientists to produce groundbreaking disease research, and to support the education of outstanding young scientists at the Kellogg School of Science and Technology.

Here are a few examples of where unrestricted dollars have gone in the past year:

• Dr. Hollis Cline, from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, has joined our faculty. One of Dr. Cline's specialties is the study of autism. Her arrival is made possible through unrestricted funds.
• Unrestricted funds help underwrite Scripps Research's top-ranked graduate program. Scripps Research scientists use graduate students in high-level research to help train them for the science of tomorrow.
• Dr. Sheng Ding has used unrestricted funds for postdoctoral support in his stem cell research. Dr. Ding is at the forefront of regenerative medicine, studying how stem cells can assist the body's own healing processes — he is confident that his work will pave the way for the development of drugs that can regenerate and repair tissue to assist in a variety of diseases.
• Unrestricted funds also assist the various departments at the Institute — one scientist who specifically benefited is Dr. Joel Gottesfeld who is among the most promising researchers in the world for the devastating neurodegenerative disorder, Friedreich's ataxia.

Unrestricted gifts help improve the welfare of humankind...and with your support, we will save lives.