The Scripps Molecular Screening Center and Translational Research Institute

The Scripps Research Institute

Lansbury and Caughey state in their Primer on prion proteins [1] “Mice lacking the PrP gene, first produced by Charles Weissmann and colleagues, are viable, but have altered neuronal function and develop neurological abnormalities later in life.” This statement is misleading. The PrP-knockout mice produced in our laboratory [2] do not show neurological abnormalities at any time and we have neve...

The Scripps Research Institute.

Dr. Sacks' goal is'to humanize medicine; to recognize ihe link between body and soul. In 1970 he published his first book, Migraine, in which he explored the neuropsychiatric omponents of migraine headaches. While completing the book he went to work in a New York hospital where he encountered a group of patients who were to have a profound effect on his life's work. Survivors of the epidemic of...

The Scripps Research Institute Neurobiology

The NIH-NIAID Schistosomiasis Resource Center at the Biomedical Research Institute: Molecular Redux

Schistosomiasis remains a health burden in many parts of the world. The complex life cycle of Schistosoma parasites and the economic and societal conditions present in endemic areas make the prospect of eradication unlikely in the foreseeable future. Continued and vigorous research efforts must therefore be directed at this disease, particularly since only a single World Health Organization (WH...

Research mentor training: initiatives of the University of Wisconsin Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.

VOLUME 6 • ISSUE 4 WWW.CTSJOURNAL.COM T he University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) has served as a hub of multidisciplinary expertise in both research mentor and mentee training and evaluation, with long-standing, federally funded eff orts to support innovative practice, training interventions, and research to improve training programs for diverse scholars in science, technology, engineering, math...