Where physics and biology meet

The Scripps Research Institute is a nonprofit organization with a long history of breakthroughs in biomedicine. The Palo Alto Research Center, or PARC, uses its mathematical, physical, and information expertise to bring new technology into commercial development. The two establishments realized that, by combining their expertise in physical and biological disciplines, they could develop biomedical technologies, for example for improved disease detection and drug development. The Scripps-PARC Institute for Advanced Biomedical Sciences was formed in 2002 with the objective of developing new instrumentation and information systems to accelerate discovery in the life sciences.