Misplaced Pages

Salk Institute for Biological Studies: Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 03:21, 22 September 2005 edit66.75.232.84 (talk)No edit summary← Previous edit Revision as of 03:24, 22 September 2005 edit undo66.75.232.84 (talk)No edit summaryNext edit →
Line 1: Line 1:
]]The '''Salk Institute for Biological Studies''' is an independent non-profit educational research organization in ]. It was founded in ] by ], M.D., the developer of the polio vaccine. Among the founding consultants were ] and ]. The institute has 57 labs and focuses its research in three areas: ] and ]; ]s; and ] Biology. The ] provided the initial funding and continues to support the institute to this day. The campus was designed by the renowned architect ]. Salk had sought to make a beautiful campus in order to draw the best researchers in the world. The Salk Institute currently employs more that 1200 preeminient faculty, researchers and staff. ]]The '''Salk Institute for Biological Studies''' is an independent non-profit educational research organization in ]. It was founded in ] by ], M.D., the developer of the polio vaccine. Among the founding consultants were ] and ]. The institute has 56 labs and focuses its research in three areas: ] and ]; ]s; and ] Biology. The ] provided the initial funding and continues to support the institute to this day. The campus was designed by the renowned architect ]. Salk had sought to make a beautiful campus in order to draw the best researchers in the world. The Salk Institute currently employs more that 1200 preeminient faculty, researchers and staff.


==History== ==History==

Revision as of 03:24, 22 September 2005

Salk Institute
Salk Institute

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is an independent non-profit educational research organization in La Jolla, California. It was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, M.D., the developer of the polio vaccine. Among the founding consultants were Jacob Bronowski and Francis Crick. The institute has 56 labs and focuses its research in three areas: Molecular Biology and Genetics; Neurosciences; and Plant Biology. The March of Dimes provided the initial funding and continues to support the institute to this day. The campus was designed by the renowned architect Louis Kahn. Salk had sought to make a beautiful campus in order to draw the best researchers in the world. The Salk Institute currently employs more that 1200 preeminient faculty, researchers and staff.

History

Salk and Kahn approached the city of San Diego in March of 1960 about a gift of land on the Torrey Pines Mesa and were granted their request after a referendum passed in June 1960. Construction began in 1962 and a handful of researchers moved into the first labratory in 1963.

Notable faculty

Salk faculty have received a total of five Nobel Prizes. Three of the institute's resident faculty members are Nobel laureates.

As of 2003, 13 of the Salk's faculty were members of the National Academy of Sciences.

External link

Categories: