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Scripps Research Institute Alumni
Scripps Research University has produced many notable alumni in fields, including science, medicine, business, and the arts. Here are a few of the most famous alumni:
- Elizabeth Blackburn, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (2009) for her work on telomeres.
- Craig Venter, biologist and entrepreneur led the first private effort to sequence the human genome.
- Jules Hoffmann, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (2011) for his work on the identification of the Toll-like receptors.
- Arturo Rosenblueth, the neuroscientist who co-founded the field of cybernetics
- Kimberly Prather is an atmospheric chemist and National Academy of Sciences member.
- Stephen J. Elledge, a cancer biologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
- Dr. Pamela Bjorkman is a structural biologist who has made significant contributions to our understanding of the immune system.
- Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (1993) for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction.
- Dr. Kim Janda is a world-renowned chemist and immunologist who is known for her work on developing new cancer therapies.
- Arun Majumdar is a materials scientist and director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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