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December 17, 1990 | LINDA ROACH MONROE, TIMES STAFF WRITER
When scientists unravel the genetic signature of Alzheimer's disease, will women be advised to choose abortion rather than bearing a child who will acquire the disease six decades or so after birth? If a child is an asymptomatic carrier of the cystic fibrosis gene, when should his parents tell him so? Should his girlfriends all be screened to make sure he doesn't end up marrying another carrier of the gene?
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November 19, 2003 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies announced Tuesday that it had received a $30-million donation, the largest single gift in its 43-year history. Dr. Richard Murphy, president and chief executive of the Salk Institute, said the gift would help the institute broaden its research and attract new faculty. Officials declined to identify the benefactor.
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February 16, 1990 | Anthony Perry
When it comes to science, researchers at the Salk Institute in La Jolla are at the top of the heap: trying to crack the secrets of AIDS, gene therapy, what makes the brain tick, and more. But in media relations, Salk lags. Unlike UC San Diego and other science centers, Salk does not have a public-affairs staff that encourages media attention. Interviews are rare.
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November 17, 1988 | LINDA ROACH MONROE, Times Staff Writer
Frederic de Hoffmann, co-founder of a seminal San Diego research corporation and the man who lifted the Salk Institute to financial stability, resigned Wednesday as chief executive officer of Salk because he is infected with the AIDS virus. "Dr. de Hoffmann had coronary bypass surgery in March of 1984, before AIDS virus testing in blood was done. Several weeks ago, Dr.
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January 2, 1991 | LINDA ROACH MONROE, TIMES STAFF WRITER
When Didier Trono first saw the elegant white buildings overlooking the Pacific in La Jolla, the Salk Institute looked to him like "the temple on the cliff." Now Trono has become one of the priests in that biology temple, the first in a core group that will look for basic knowledge that could help science outwit AIDS, the disease that killed the institute's longtime president last year.
REAL ESTATE
July 13, 1986
Salk Institute and a subsidiary, the Salk Institute Bio-Technology Industrial Associates Inc., have signed five-year leases for space at McKellar Development of La Jolla's McKellar Research Center in Torrey Pines. The $1,016,175 lease provides 9,968 square feet space of combined space in the $25-million center. The Salk Institute is scheduled to occupy its new offices in September, while SIBIA will complete its move this month.