La Jolla institutes set sights on Florida
3 branches warmly welcomed in state
By Cheryl Clark
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
March 16, 2008
The La Jolla-based Scripps Research Institute's branch in Florida has received a five-year, $7.6 million federal grant to develop a drug that would attack an enzyme responsible for brain degeneration in Parkinson's disease. That's a relatively modest sum in the world of research, especially for Scripps, which is the nation's largest private biomedical institute.
But the grant is prestigious because it comes from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a branch of the National Institutes of Health. It is the latest reflection of the growing presence of The Scripps Research Institute and two other La Jolla-based research groups in Florida.
The Scripps Research Institute, the Burnham Institute for Medical Research and the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies took up Florida's generous offers in 2005 and 2006 to establish campuses in the Sunshine State.
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