Inder M. Verma Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte

April 30, 2009
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has been awarded a $6.6 million grant – the largest single award in the latest competition -- by the California Institute Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) for research aimed at translating basic science into ...read more >>

Marc Montminy

April 28, 2009
Marc R. Montminy, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the nation's most prestigious honorary society for scientists. ...read more >>

April 22, 2009
The Salk Institute has received a $5.5 million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to launch the Salk Center for Nutritional Genomics. The new Center will employ a molecular approach to nutrition and its impact on ...read more >>

Kuo-Fen Lee Zhijiang Chen Tasha G. Bengoechea

April 21, 2009
New research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies casts the role of a neuronal growth factor receptor—long suspected to facilitate the toxic effects of beta amyloid in Alzheimer's disease—in a new light, suggesting the molecule actua ...read more >>

E.J. Chichilnisky and Jeffrey Gauthier

April 07, 2009
About 1.25 million neurons in the retina -- each of which views the world only through a small jagged window called a receptive field -- collectively form the seamless picture we rely on to navigate our environment. ...read more >>

Reuben J. Shaw

March 26, 2009
Salk Institute scientist Reuben J. Shaw, Ph.D., has been selected a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist, the HHMI announced today. ...read more >>