{"id":302400,"date":"2011-02-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/salk-opens-biophotonics-center\/"},"modified":"2011-02-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T08:00:00","slug":"salk-opens-biophotonics-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/salk-opens-biophotonics-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Salk opens biophotonics center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA JOLLA \u2014 The Salk Institute for Biological studies officially opened its new Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center on Feb. 9, after quietly hiring two faculty members specializing in biophotonics \u2014 &#8212;the science of using and manipulating light to investigate biological function. This move, made possible by a landmark $20 million gift from the Waitt Foundation, boosts the institute\u2019s imaging capacity to rival most \u2014 if not all \u2014 academic research institutions of its size in the nation. &#8220;By putting these incredible tools in the hands of Salk investigators in an interdisciplinary teamwork environment, breakthroughs are bound to happen,&#8221; said Ted Waitt, vice-chair of the Salk Institute board of trustees and chairman of the Waitt Foundation, in a statement. The faculty research labs housed within the Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center are engaged in both imaging technology development and answering fundamental problems in the life sciences. &#8220;Biophotonics is one of those transforming technologies that will impact nearly all the science being done at the Salk Institute,&#8221; said Inder Verma, Ph.D., an American Cancer Society professor in the Laboratory of Genetics and holder of the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair in Exemplary Life Science.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA JOLLA \u2014 The Salk Institute for Biological studies officially opened its new Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center on Feb. 9, after quietly hiring two faculty members specializing in biophotonics \u2014 &#8212;the science of using and manipulating light to investigate biological function. This move, made possible by a landmark $20 million gift from the Waitt Foundation, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11560","_seopress_titles_title":"Salk opens biophotonics center","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11560,11551,11593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-la-jolla-village-news","category-news","category-no-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}