Neuroscientist Rusty Gage has been appointed interim president of the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in La Jolla, California, which has been rocked by a series of gender discrimination lawsuits.
“What I see as my main objective is to help stabilize the institute and prepare it for the incoming of the next president,” Gage tells The San Diego Union-Tribune. “I think this next recruitment is really very important.”
Gage will replace Elizabeth Blackburn, a Nobel laureate who has been president of the Salk Institute since 2015. Blackburn announced last month that she intended to retire this summer—the news came after three gender discrimination lawsuits were filed by Salk professors Vicky Lundblad, Katherine Jones, and Beverly Emerson in July 2017. In Emerson’s suit, she alleges that ...
