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  • Major depressive disorder therapy to enter Phase 3 pivotal clinical trials
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    Major depressive disorder therapy to enter Phase 3 pivotal clinical trials

    Navacaprant, a monotherapy discovered at Scripps Research, showed clinically meaningful improvements for people with moderate-to-severe MDD in a recently completed Phase 2 study.

  • Scripps Research awarded $9.8 million by NIH to address deadly bacterial infections
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    Scripps Research awarded $9.8 million by NIH to address deadly bacterial infections

    The program grant will support the development of high-affinity antibodies that can target skin and lung infections, as well as sexually transmitted diseases.

  • Scripps Research mourns passing of immunology professor and virology pioneer Michael Oldstone
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    Scripps Research mourns passing of immunology professor and virology pioneer Michael Oldstone

    A leader in viral pathogenesis, Oldstone helped shape our modern understanding of viruses and how the immune system responds to these microbial threats.

  • Monitoring T cells may allow prevention of type 1 diabetes
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    Monitoring T cells may allow prevention of type 1 diabetes

    Scripps Research study shows that analyzing T cells in blood samples could be used to select at-risk patients for type 1 diabetes preventive therapy.

  • Study optimizes patient-specific stem cell-based therapy for Parkinson’s disease
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    Study optimizes patient-specific stem cell-based therapy for Parkinson’s disease

    The discovery by scientists from Scripps Research and Cardiff University paves the way for clinical trials that use patients’ own cells to treat Parkinson’s disease.

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  • Scripps Research mourns passing of leading organic chemist Albert Eschenmoser
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    Scripps Research mourns passing of leading organic chemist Albert Eschenmoser

    Eschenmoser pioneered key reactions in synthetic chemistry and shaped the understanding of how life may have first originated on Earth.

  • Eric Topol and Julia Moore Vogel
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    Scripps Research receives momentous award from NIH to lead key programs in national All of Us Research Program

    The award renews support for Scripps Research Translational Institute and partner organizations involved in expanding one of the largest and most inclusive health data resources of its kind.

  • Eric Topol, MD
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    Scripps Research awarded $46.8 million by NIH to promote human health through innovative translational science and training

    The Translational Institute is harnessing genomic and digital technologies with machine learning to revolutionize health research.

  • Scripps Research’s Danielle Grotjahn named 2023 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences
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    Scripps Research’s Danielle Grotjahn named 2023 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences

    The award will support Grotjahn’s study of how cells assemble the molecular machinery that governs programmed cell death.  

  • Excessive alcohol consumption may accelerate Alzheimer’s disease progression
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    Excessive alcohol consumption may accelerate Alzheimer’s disease progression

    Scripps Research and University of Bologna scientists showed how excessive alcohol consumption in animals can hasten cognitive decline in those genetically predisposed to Alzheimer’s disease.

  • Crossing the ring: new method enables C-H activation across saturated carbocycles
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    Crossing the ring: new method enables C-H activation across saturated carbocycles

    Scripps Research chemists add another powerful tool to their “molecular editing” toolkit for crafting pharmaceuticals and other valuable compounds.

  • Deadly virus structures point toward new avenues for vaccine design
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    Deadly virus structures point toward new avenues for vaccine design

    By comparing the structures of protein complexes from different lineages of the dangerous Lassa virus, a Scripps Research team identified new antibodies and vaccine targets.

  • Scripps Research develops behind-the-scenes tool for better biomedical data discovery
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    Scripps Research develops behind-the-scenes tool for better biomedical data discovery

    The new resource makes datasets more discoverable for life science community.

  • Scripps Research’s Skaggs Graduate School awards doctoral degrees to 31st graduating class
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    Scripps Research’s Skaggs Graduate School awards doctoral degrees to 31st graduating class

    Commencement ceremony will be livestreamed via Zoom and on institute’s Facebook page.

  • Scripps Research neuroscientist Hollis Cline elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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    Scripps Research neuroscientist Hollis Cline elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    Cline is recognized for her discoveries about the role of sensory experience in brain development.

  • A better route to benzocyclobutenes, sought-after building blocks for drugs
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    A better route to benzocyclobutenes, sought-after building blocks for drugs

    Scripps Research chemists devise a new, C-H activation-based method for the synthesis of BCBs.

  • Yuzhong Liu joins Scripps Research faculty to develop improved vaccines and medicines using synthetic biology
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    Yuzhong Liu joins Scripps Research faculty to develop improved vaccines and medicines using synthetic biology

    Liu’s research focuses on the biosynthesis of complex natural products in engineered microbes to harness, alter, or augment their innate bioactivities in the context of drug discovery.

  • Renowned Scripps Research professor Jeffery Kelly elected to National Academy of Sciences
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    Renowned Scripps Research professor Jeffery Kelly elected to National Academy of Sciences

    Kelly’s groundbreaking work on protein misfolding has led to therapies for neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases.

  • “Mirror-image” molecules pave new path for cancer drug discovery
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    “Mirror-image” molecules pave new path for cancer drug discovery

    By comparing how mirror image versions of small molecules impact clusters of proteins, Scripps Research scientists can identify potential new drug targets.

  • Scripps Research preclinical study finds insomnia drug blocks oxycodone relapse
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    Scripps Research preclinical study finds insomnia drug blocks oxycodone relapse

    Study tested suvorexant (Belsomra®) for its ability to reduce drug-taking and block relapse.

  • How alcohol consumption contributes to chronic pain
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    How alcohol consumption contributes to chronic pain

    A Scripps Research team showed how both alcohol intake and alcohol withdrawal can lead to increased pain and hypersensitivity.

  • Xin Jin receives dual awards to study autism risk genes in neurodevelopment
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    Xin Jin receives dual awards to study autism risk genes in neurodevelopment

    Major grants from the National Institutes of Health and California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will support the development of state-of-the-art genomic tools.

  • Trim the sugar: New HIV vaccine design improves immune response
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    Trim the sugar: New HIV vaccine design improves immune response

    Scripps Research vaccine candidate headed for clinical trials.

  • Therapeutic can seek and destroy potent opioid to treat overdoses
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    Therapeutic can seek and destroy potent opioid to treat overdoses

    Scripps Research chemists developed a new biologic to work against the synthetic opioid carfentanil, which is 100 times more potent than fentanyl.

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