You can't cure what you don't understand. That's why The Salk Institute exists: to figure out how cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's and many other diseases undermine our health and wellbeing.
Only when we truly understand biology will we be in a position to cure diseases.
Founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, pioneer of the polio vaccine, the Institute is a revolutionary environment for biological studies, where 900 of the world's leading scientists work to cure the major problems plaguing human welfare.
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LA JOLLA—Advanced pancreatic cancer is often symptomless, leading to late diagnosis only after metastases have spread throughout the body. Additionally, tumor cells are encased in a “protective shi...
The Salk Institute’s Harnessing Plants Initiative (HPI) is an innovative, scalable and bold approach to fight climate change by optimizing a plant’s natural ability to capture and store carbon and ...
It might seem like fruit flies would have nothing in common with computers, but Assistant Professor Saket Navlakha explains the story behind how fruit flies and computers identify novel information...
A new study led by Salk Institute scientists and published in Cell suggests that high-fat diets fuel colorectal cancer growth by triggering a hormonal signal that lets potentially cancerous cells t...
Salk Institute researchers have developed a new gene therapy to help decelerate the aging process. The findings, which were published in the journal Nature Medicine, highlight a novel CRISPR/Cas9 g...
Scientists from the Salk Institute discovered a new protein complex that keeps the brakes on stem cells, allowing them to maintain their indefinite potential. The new complex, called GBAF and detai...
Driving to work, typing an email or playing a round of golf—people perform actions such as these throughout the day. But neuroscientists are still unsure how the brain orchestrates complex actions ...
The Conquering Cancer Initiative will harness specific and emerging scientific strategies to tackle the five deadliest cancers: pancreatic, ovarian, lung, brain (glioblastoma) and triple-negative b...
Salk’s Conquering Cancer Initiative will further empower our world-renowned cancer research team to transform cancer therapy by engaging our community partners in a collective effort to redefine ca...
Salk’s Conquering Cancer Initiative will further empower our world-renowned cancer research team to transform cancer therapy by engaging our community partners in a collective effort to redefine ca...
Amy Rommel is a postdoctoral research associate in Professor Inder Verma's laboratory of genetics at the Salk Institute. Rommel focuses her efforts on one of the most lethal forms of cancer, gliobl...
Meet Amy Firth, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Inder Verma's lab at the Salk Institute, studying how lungs work. Read more about Amy in the August 2014 edition of InsideSalk: http://www.salk.edu/inside...
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is one of the world's preeminent basic research institutions, where internationally renowned faculty probe fundamental life science questions in a unique, collaborative, and creative environment. Focused both on discovery and on mentoring future generations of researchers, Salk scientists make groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of cancer, aging, Alzheimer's, diabetes and infectious diseases by studying neuroscience, genetics, cell and plant biology, and related disciplines.
