Padres heads gives major donation to Scripps

 

By John Johnston

 

San Diego philanthropist, businessman, and community leader John J. Moores has contributed the first gift of $2.1 million to The Scripps Research Institute’s new $50 million initiative to recruit new world-class researchers and sustain and expand the work of current scientists at the renowned La Jolla- and Florida-based biomedical organization, according to Scripps Institute President Richard A. Lerner, M.D. Lerner noted that the State of Florida has invested more than $300 million in recruitment and start-up funds and Palm Beach County an additional $200 million for facilities for the Institute’s new campus in Jupiter, to open in February 2009.