Scientific Associate
The Scripps Research Institute
Emery Smith is a Scientific Associate at the Scripps Research Institute Molecular
Screening Center located in Jupiter, FL, USA. Since joining the group in 2010, Emery has
interacted both with corporate and academic partners to implement miniaturized, ultrahigh-
throughput screens of collections of up to 1 million compounds. The screens have
been focused around GPCRs. Prior to joining the group in 2010, Emery was working with
Dr. Charles Weissmann at Scripps working on Prion disease. This work started in 2006.
Prior to 2006, Emery began his research career as a Research Associate at Athersys Inc.
located in Cleveland, OH, USA. There he worked in both the VT (validated targets) group
and the Regenerative Medicine group. The focus of this work was in the isolation and
validation of adult human stem cells, currently known as Multistem.