On April 12, 1955, the vaccine developed by Jonas Salk and his colleagues was officially declared ‘safe, effective and potent’ ...

A scientist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla is hoping to develop a new anti-anxiety drug that would help you "focus, ...

In 2014, as I started my doctoral work at the lab of Alan Saghatelian at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, the idea that there were tiny proteins in our cells that had ...

In 1947 Salk became the head of the Virus Research Lab at the University ... Salk founded the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in La Jolla, California. "I couldn't possibly have become ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Melvin Cohn, a cofounder of the Salk Institute who was renowned for his work in immunology and gene regulation, died October 23 in San Diego. He ...