Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla

Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation is among the oldest and largest private research institutions in the United States. Remarkable research laboratories, a major hospital and a sophisticated outpatient facility are housed within a single, modern, five-acre complex on the Torrey Pines mesa.

Displaying her characteristic foresight, philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps predicted that the emerging science of biochemistry was destined to transform the entire field of medicine. With her impetus and funds, a small, single-story facility on Prospect Street opened its doors in 1924. Known as the Scripps Metabolic Clinic, and staffed by seven professionals, the modest facility offered special diagnostic services and conducted some research, primarily in diabetes.

In its sixty-three-year history, the single-specialty Clinic has become on internationally renown healthcare and biochemical research institution with more than 4,000 employees in twelve locations throughout San Diego County, with expertise spanning over fifty fields of medicine and surgery. In an effort to maintain high standards of excellence, Scripps Clinic attracts thousands of clinicians and scientists from all corners of the world who participate each year in more than 1,250 seminars and symposiums.

La Jolla is proud to boast some of the world's most important science and research facilities, which from often humble beginnings have successfully emerged to preserve the quality of life and have ultimately improved the human condition.