The Scripps Research Institute will be led by Peter Schultz (right) as CEO and Steve Kay as president.TSRI
Chemist Peter Schultz of the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) will take over as CEO of the institution, while geneticist Steve Kay, formerly of TSRI and currently dean of the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (USC), will take the reins as president, the institute announced on Friday (September 18).
These personnel announcements come a little more than a year after former TSRI president Michael Marletta resigned following faculty disapproval of a proposed partnership with USC. The institute was also suffering a $21 million annual deficit at the time. In the interim, James Paulson, head of TSRI’s cell and molecular biology department, has served as acting president and chief executive.
TSRI hopes Schultz and Kay will help recruit more ...
