California
A pair of private San Diego science centers known for their breakthroughs in areas ranging from cancer to COVID-19, will undergo major expansions.
Oct. 30, 2021
The hybrid-energy vessel will replace the research vessel Robert Gordon Sproul.
July 24, 2021
World & Nation
The federal government, angered by the Scripps Research Institute’s proposed marketing agreement with a giant Swiss pharmaceutical company, is threatening to take away from Scripps the exclusive rights to patents from its biotechnology discoveries, the director of the National Institutes of Health told Congress on Thursday.
June 18, 1993
Signing a historic agreement on a page marked with a Post-It, top officials of two institutions founded by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps united Thursday to create the first of an expected string of health care conglomerates in San Diego County.
Jan. 4, 1991
Business
When Scripps Research Institute signed a 10-year, $300-million research agreement in December that gives Swiss pharmaceutical giant Sandoz first rights on all technology developed at the La Jolla facility, neither party anticipated the firestorm that was to erupt.
March 22, 1993
Science & Medicine
Three large institutions have been the hub of biological research in La Jolla for the past 30 years.
Feb. 19, 1989
After a whirlwind courtship, Scripps Memorial Hospitals and Scripps Clinic & Research Foundation have agreed to unify next Jan. 1, leaving Sharp HealthCare as the jilted party in a health-care triangle.
July 28, 1990
The search for an HIV vaccine has taken an important step forward after researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla managed to capture molecular images of a protein spike that allows the deadly virus to invade human immune cells to hack their genetic code.
Oct. 31, 2013
A man on a half-day fishing excursion off Windansea Beach feels a tug at the end of his line and minutes later hauls up a glistening 15-pound white sea bass.
Aug. 20, 1986
Anyone wanting to locate an object in the vast reaches of the world’s oceans would likely build on work done at the renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography, home to many of the world’s foremost underwater acoustical researchers.
Nov. 10, 1985