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  Organic chemist Keary Engle honored with Young Investigator Award from Amgen

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

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  Michael Erb receives Breakthrough Science Initiative Award from Ono Pharma Foundation

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

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  Scripps Research chemist Donna Blackmond elected to German National Academy of Sciences

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

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  Michael Bollong and Stefano Forli named winners of 2020 Baxter Foundation Young Investigator Award

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

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  Benjamin Cravatt of Scripps Research honored with 2020 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research

  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.

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  Ardem Patapoutian of Scripps Research honored with 2020 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

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

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  Scripps Research chemist earns NIH grant worth $11 million over 8 years

  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.

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  Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry honors Dale Boger with E.C. Taylor Senior Award

  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.

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  Peter Schultz wins Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry

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

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  Whitehall Foundation honors two pioneering Scripps Research scientists

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