LA JOLLA, CA\u2014The Board of Trustees of the Salk Institute is pleased to announce the election of Elizabeth Keadle as its newest member.\n <\/p>\n
\nElizabeth ‘Liz’ Keadle is an alumna of the Institute who, while a student at the University of California San Diego, worked in the Peptide Biology Laboratory with Salk scientist Wylie Vale. Starting as a volunteer, she was hired to work on several research projects including the corticotropin-releasing factor project.\n <\/p>\n
\nFollowing this formative experience at Salk, Ms. Keadle entered the biotech business community, eventually joining Pharmacia AB, the Swedish biotech supply company, where she rose to key technical and business leadership positions. It was during this time that Ms. Keadle became involved in the start-up and launch of the local biotech company, Invitrogen Corporation. The business quickly grew to become the world’s largest biotech research supply company and went public in 1999. Years later, Invitrogen was renamed Life Technologies and was sold in 2013 to Thermo-Fisher for $13.6B.\n <\/p>\n
\nAn ardent supporter of the important science conducted at the Institute, Ms. Keadle is a longtime Symphony at Salk sponsor and also created an endowment in support of the Vale lab in perpetuity. She recently established the Wylie Vale Chair as a lasting legacy to honor the late scientist, which is currently held by Paul Sawchenko, Professor and Head of Salk’s Laboratory of Neuronal Structure and Function.\n <\/p>\n
\n“Not only has Liz’s extraordinary generosity impacted and furthered our research in many ways, but she has also made a tremendous difference in the lives of countless young scientists by her support of the Institute’s programs over the years,” says Salk President William Brody. “We are delighted that she has joined the Salk Board of Trustees.\n<\/p>\n
\nLos logros del cuerpo docente han sido reconocidos con numerosos galardones, entre los que se incluyen premios Nobel y la pertenencia a la Academia Nacional de Ciencias. Fundado en 1960 por el Dr. Jonas Salk, pionero en la vacuna contra la poliomielitis, el Instituto es una organizaci\u00f3n independiente sin fines de lucro y un hito arquitect\u00f3nico.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faculty":[],"disease-research":[144],"class_list":["post-2454","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","hentry","disease-research-leadership"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nAcerca del Instituto Salk de Estudios Biol\u00f3gicos:<\/strong>
\nEl Instituto Salk de Estudios Biol\u00f3gicos es una de las instituciones de investigaci\u00f3n b\u00e1sica m\u00e1s destacadas del mundo, donde un cuerpo docente de prestigio internacional investiga cuestiones fundamentales de las ciencias de la vida en un entorno \u00fanico, colaborativo y creativo. Centrados tanto en el descubrimiento como en la formaci\u00f3n de las futuras generaciones de investigadores, los cient\u00edficos del Salk realizan contribuciones revolucionarias a nuestra comprensi\u00f3n del c\u00e1ncer, el envejecimiento, el Alzheimer, la diabetes y las enfermedades infecciosas mediante el estudio de la neurociencia, la gen\u00e9tica, la biolog\u00eda celular y vegetal, y otras disciplinas relacionadas.\n<\/p>\n