Salk Institute

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is an independent non-profit educational research organization in La Jolla, California. It was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, M.D., the developer of the polio vaccine. Among the founding consultants were Jacob Bronowski and Francis Crick. The institute has 56 labs and focuses its research in three areas: Molecular Biology and Genetics; Neurosciences; and Plant Biology. Research topics include cancer, diabetes, birth defects, Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, AIDS, and plant biology. The March of Dimes provided the initial funding and continues to support the institute to this day. The campus was designed by the renowned architect Louis Kahn. Salk had sought to make a beautiful campus in order to draw the best researchers in the world. The original buildings of the Salk Institute were designated as a historical landmark in 1991.

Notable faculty

Salk faculty have received a total of five Nobel Prizes. Three of the institute's resident faculty members are Nobel laureates.

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• Renato Dulbecco
• Sydney Brenner
• Roger Guillemin

As of 2003, 13 of the Salk's faculty were members of the National Academy of Sciences.

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