About The Scripps-PARC Institute

The Scripps-PARC Institute for Advanced Biomedical Sciences, formed in 2002, is a partnership between two elite research organizations with a combined history of more than 80 years of leading-edge research. The new Institute leverages the world-class expertise of each organization, and focuses on the development of new instrumentation and information systems to accelerate discovery in the life sciences.

The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), famous for inventing laser printing, the Ethernet, and the graphical user interface, provides the Institute's expertise in mathematical, physical, and information sciences. Especially relevant competencies include specialized materials, microscale fabrication, and hardware, software and algorithm design.

The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is one of the country's largest, private, non-profit research institutions. It brings to the partnership nearly half a century of research success in the life sciences with special expertise in areas such as cell biology, proteomics and imaging (atomic to cellular). TSRI researchers identify the key areas for Scripps-PARC innovation, areas in which new technologies can have the highest scientific and commercial impact.

The Scripps-PARC Institute is initially focusing on developing tools for structural and functional proteomics. The Institute is uniquely positioned to invent such technologies, and transform prototype tools into viable production systems that can be adopted by the broader scientific community, and ultimately find use in drug discovery and translational medicine.

Some of the Institute's current research efforts are highlighted in the projects section of this site.

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