The Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute is a non-profit medical research institute with two locations in La Jolla, California and Lake Nona, Florida. The more than 750 scientists at Sanford-Burnham are focused on revealing the fundamental molecular causes of various diseases, with research including topics such as, cancer, neuroscience, stem cell research, diabetes and obesity.
Research at Sanford-Burnham is supported by funding from National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation among others, and partnerships with pharmaceutical companies such as Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development.[1] In 2008, Burnham was awarded a $97.9 million grant by NIH to establish a high-throughput screening screening center.[2]
History
William (Bill) H. Fishman, M.D., Ph.D., and his wife Lillian Fishman, M.Ed., left Boston, Massachusetts, to found an independent research institution dedicated to the then-new concept of oncodevelopment in 1976.
The Fishmans, who had then retired from Tufts University School of Medicine, moved across the country and established the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation in San Diego, California to conduct biomedical research. The institute was established in 1976 as the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, and was renamed the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in 1996 for businessman Malin Burnham, after he joined with an anonymous donor to give $10 million. In 2007, T. Denny Sanford gave the institute $20 million through his Sanford Health, allowing it to create the Sanford Children's Health Research Center, which has sites in Sioux Falls and La Jolla, CA, the latter within the campus of Sanford-Burnham. In 2010, the institute re branded to its current name following a $50 million pledge of support from Sanford. [3]
The center originally focused on oncodevelopment, the study of developmental biology in conjunction with oncology as a means to better understand cancer.
Research
Sanford-Burnham was founded with the primary focus on cancer research. The institute employees more than 1,000 people, of which 750 are scientists. The scientists who work at Sanford-Burnham include biologists, chemists, biophysicists, engineers, and computer scientists. Sanford-Burnham ranks consistently among the world's top 25 organizations for its research impact, according to Thomson Scientific data. It also ranks among the top four research institutes in the United States in National Institutes of Health grant funding.
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