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Scripps Florida and Israel Cancer Association Collaborate for a Cure
The first Israel Cancer Association (ICA)—Scripps Florida symposium, "Collaboration for a Cure," on January 20 drew more than 120 physicians, scientists, intellectual property attorneys, and other individuals to the Scripps Florida campus.
"Having the scientists together was a great first step toward generating unique and productive research collaborations and coming up with new targets for cancer prevention and therapy," said John L. Cleveland, professor and chair of the Department of Cancer Biology. "Scripps Florida research can be shared with other leading institutions and this is a win-win endeavor with the scientists affiliated with the Israel Cancer Association."
Initiated and coordinated by the Israel Cancer Association USA based in West Palm Beach, FL, the symposium was co-sponsored by UBS Palm Beach Wealth Group and Daszkal Bolton LLP. To continue to foster the relationship between the two institutions, ICA will host Scripps Florida scientists in Israel in 2012.
Barbas Lab Paper Highlighted
A recent study from the Scripps Research Barbas lab was highlighted in both the "Research Highlights" section of Nature Chemistry and the "News" section of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemistry World. The Journal of the American Chemical Society paper, "Tyrosine Bioconjugation through Aqueous Ene-Type Reactions: A Click-Like Reaction for Tyrosine" by Hitoshi Ban, Julia Gavrilyuk, and Carlos F. Barbas, III, describes a way to use "click chemistry" to attach small molecules to proteins and peptides under mild, aqueous reaction conditions. The new method could facilitate drug development and other biomedical research.
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New Nobel Laureate Visits Campus 
Yale University Professor Thomas Steitz, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, spoke on the Scripps California campus as part of the graduate program Distinguished Lecturer Series on January 20. He is shown here with graduate students Jackie Blankman (left) and Ghira Bhabha before he delivered his lecture, "From the Structure and Function of the Ribosome to New Antibiotics."
