Monday, May 14, 2012
Scripps Florida Scientists Awarded $8.4 Million Grant to Develop New Anti-Smoking Treatments

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute has been awarded an $8.4 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop new compounds to help prevent relapse in smokers who are kicking the habit. ..

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Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Scripps Florida Scientists Identify Neurotransmitters that Lead to Forgetting

In a study that appears in the May 10, 2012 issue of the journal Neuron, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have pinpointed a mechanism that is essential for forming memories in the first place and, as it turns out, is equally essential for eliminating them after memories have formed. ..

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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Scripps Florida Scientist Awarded $1.5 Million to Design Therapeutics with New RNA Approach

A scientist from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute has been awarded $1.5 million from the National Institutes of Health to develop new computer-driven design methods to find new therapeutics targeting RNA. ..

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Friday, April 20, 2012
Scripps Florida Scientist Awarded $1 Million for Stress-Associated Disease and Aging Research

A scientist from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute has been awarded just over $1 million from the National Institutes of Health to develop a range of new tests that could lead to new treatments for a number of stress-associated and degenerative disorders of advancing age. Shuji Kishi, an assistant professor at Scripps Research, is the principal investigator for the three-year study. ..

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Thursday, April 05, 2012
Scripps Florida Scientist Awarded $1 Million Grant to Develop New Tools for Hepatitis C Treatment Discovery

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have been awarded just over $1 million from the National Institutes of Health for a three-year study to develop new high-throughput screening tests to find compounds that disable a protein essential to hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication. ..

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Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Scripps Florida Scientists Shed Light on Age-Related Memory Loss and Possible Treatments

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have shown in animal models that the loss of memory that comes with aging is not necessarily a permanent thing. ..

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Friday, March 30, 2012
Scripps Florida Scientists Win $2 Million to Study New Pathway Important in the Development and Maintenance of Lymphoma

The National Institutes of Health has awarded The Scripps Research Institute $2 million to study the role of a pathway in the development and maintenance of B-cell lymphoma, a type of cancer that begins in immune system and turns normal disease fighting cells into cancers. The disease affects immune cells known as lymphocytes, which are part of our white blood cells. ..

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Friday, March 09, 2012
Scripps Research Institute and OPKO Health Announce Global License Agreement for a Novel Compound That Blocks Brain Cell Destruction in Parkinson’s Disease

The Scripps Research Institute and OPKO Health, Inc. (NYSE: OPK) today announced a global agreement for the development and commercialization of SR 3306, a novel compound discovered by scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute that blocks the destruction of brains cells in animal models of Parkinson’s disease. ..

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Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Scripps Florida Scientists Share $3.85 Million NIH Grant to Develop New Class of Cancer Therapies

A pair of Scripps Research Institute scientists, one a cancer biologist and the other a chemist, has been awarded $3.85 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new generation of broad spectrum anti-cancer therapeutics, including breast cancer and lymphoma. ..

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Friday, February 24, 2012
Scripps Florida Team Awarded Nearly $1.5 Million to Develop Potent New HIV Inhibitors

A Scripps Florida team has been awarded nearly $1.5 million by the National Institutes of Health to identify and develop novel potent inhibitors of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of AIDS. ..

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