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A Scripps Research chemist who employs enzymes as tools to assemble useful natural compounds has been awarded a prestigious 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship for his work.

Topol to be honored alongside Drs. Anthony Fauci and Wayne Riley, as well as hundreds of healthcare professionals for their dedication and compassion during the COVID-19 crisis.  

Patapoutian is recognized for world-class research that provided the molecular basis for how temperature and pressure are perceived.

How a graduate student’s scientific illustrations have gone viral, leading to an award-winning video series.

A pioneering chemist, Yu's research has paved the way to powerful new techniques used in fields ranging from drug discovery to materials science.

Discoveries from Boger’s lab have led to unique strategies and methods for making molecules, as well as durable antibiotics, novel ways to treat chronic pain, and an experimental cancer vaccine.

Shenvi and Roberts are recognized for their contributions in organic synthesis and the development of medicinally useful substances.

The $25,000 award will support scientific research in organic chemistry, with a view to enabling drug discovery.

The award will support Erb’s drug discovery platform to identify novel cancer therapies.

Blackmond joins a long line of respected scholars defined as being “Nunquam otiosus,” or “never idle,” the motto of the academy.

The program helps prepare and support talented new investigators at pivotal moments in their career.

Cravatt is recognized for major technical advances in activity-based protein profiling, which is used to find potential new targets and drug candidates for cancer treatment.

Patapoutian, who made transformative discoveries about proteins that sense pressure, becomes the first Scripps Research scientist to win the Kavli Prize. 

Scripps Research, Florida Chemistry Professor Matthew Disney, PhD, has been honored with a prestigious Research Program Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), to aid Disney’s development of treatments for incurable diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and frontotemporal dementia.

Dale Boger, PhD, the Richard and Alice Cramer Professor of Chemistry at Scripps Research, has been awarded the E.C. Taylor Senior Award by the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry.

Scripps Research President and Chief Executive Officer Peter Schultz is recognized for his significant original contributions to the field of organic chemistry.

Neuroscientists Giordano Lippi and Li Ye have received grants from the Whitehall Foundation to support their studies into brain function.

Friedbert Weiss, PhD, a professor of neuroscience at Scripps Research, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon its members by their peers.

Michael B.A. Oldstone, MD, and Erica Ollmann Saphire, PhD were recognized by the Global Virus Network (GVN) for their leadership in the field of medical virology.

The funding will support research in the Stowers lab to describe a complete neural circuit in a mammalian brain—a first for science.

Disney’s research has changed how scientists approach so-called “undruggable” diseases.

"The NCI expects big things from us, and we embrace that challenge," Cravatt says.

Thomas Kodadek, PhD, will lead the project to make drug development more efficient and less expensive.

The award will support new research into how to design drugs to target cancer cells.