PRESS RELEASES & COVERAGE
PRESS COVERAGE
March 20, 2026: Attempt to "rewire" fentanyl shows early success [Link]
March 14, 2026: Fentanyl rewired [Link]
March 12, 2026: Rewired fentanyl preserves pain relief, curbs respiratory side effects [La Jolla Light]
February 20, 2026: DHS reports on our paper in their Chemical Security Analysis Center Chemical Current News Report [PDF]
February 18, 2026: Scientists Redesign Fentanyl To Preserve Pain Relief While Reducing Deadly Side Effects [Link]
February 18, 2026: Scripps Research scientists redesign fentanyl in search of safer pain relief [Link]
February 18, 2026: Fox 5 Highlights Scripps Research Study on Fentanyl [Link]
February 17, 2026: Scripps researchers develop safer version of fentanyl [Link]
December 16, 2025: Former Scripps Research grad students made early contributions to now-approved brain cancer drug [Link]
May 31, 2024: Conjugate vaccine curbs xylazine effects in mice [Link]
April 25, 2024: Scripps Research working on vaccine for "zombie drug" effects [La Jolla Light]
April 20, 2024: Scripps Research reports progress on vaccine against xylazine [Union Tribune]
April 18, 2024: Scripps Research reports progress toward creating vaccine against the harmful ‘zombie’ drug xylazine [Union Tribune]
August 7, 2023: Fentanyl antibody to begin clinical trials [Link]
November 15, 2022: San Diego Scientist Developing Vaccine Targeting Opioid Epidemic [Link]
October 25, 2022: Antibody blunts heroin's lethality, paving the way for a promising new therapy [Link]
February 5, 2021: Deadliest of synthetic opioids can be weakened by experimental vaccine: Study [Link]
August 10, 2020: How the pandemic is making the opioid crisis worse [Link]
September 17, 2019: Opioid Vaccine's Promise – And Ethical Peril [Link]
December 13, 2018: Can a vaccine stall America's devastating opioid death rate? [Link]
August 28, 2018: After an epic research journey, an inexpensive, practical test for river blindness [Link]
February 19, 2018: Vaccines against addictive drugs push forward despite past failures [Link]
January 25, 2018: Tackling an Epidemic – Vaccinating Against Addiction [Link]
August 16, 2017: Illicit stimulant's unusual power explained by Scripps Research team [Link]
June 22, 2017: What's the holdup on the heroin vaccine? [Link]
June 10, 2017: Heroin vaccine works in monkeys, being readied for human testing [Link]
May 16, 2017: Heavy metals fight botulism poisoning, in animal study [Link]
April 11, 2017: In Little Rock, Bill Clinton praises state's Medicaid use [Link]
November 30, 2016: TSRI scientists develop vaccine against fatal prescription opioid overdose [Link]
November 22, 2016: Opioid vaccines ready for human testing, Scripps researchers say [Link]
October 4, 2016: Deworming drugs show promise against hypervirulent C. difficile [Link]
July 14, 2015: Butt out [Link]
January 9, 2015: Behind the Heroin Vaccine: Why There's No Vaccination for Addiction [Link]
September 17, 2014: Disrupting cancer regulator MYC: an interview with Professor Kim Janda [Link]
March 29, 2013: Addiction injection: the mission to immunise drug users against dependency [Link]
April 18, 2012: Scripps Research Institute scientists develop antidote for cocaine overdose [Link]
October 3, 2011: An Addiction Vaccine, Tantalizingly Close [Link]