ways, wherever desired. Administration Riggs was closely involved in institutional expansion at City of Hope. In the 1990s, he helped establish the City of Hope Graduate School of Biological Sciences (renamed the Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences as of May 15, 2009) and served as its founding dean from 1994 to 1998. During Riggs' time as chair of the Division of Biology (1981–2000), City of Hope restructured in response to a $10 million grant from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation and established the Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope. From its establishment in 1983, Riggs was chair of the Division of Biology of the Beckman Research Institute. From 2000 to 2007, he served as director of the Beckman Research Institute. In 2014, City of Hope opened a new Diabetes & Metabolism Research Institute, building on its existing diabetes research program, with Riggs as the institute's first director. Personal life Riggs married Jane Riggs in 1960. Together, they had three children. Riggs died on March 23, 2022, at a hospital in Duarte, California. He was 82, and suffered lymphoma prior to his death. Awards Distinguished Alumni Award, California Institute of Technology, 2008 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2006 Technology Leadership Award, 2004 Distinguished alumnus of University of California, Riverside, 1988 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Rumbough Award, 1979 References 1939 births 2022 deaths Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences California Institute of Technology alumni University of California, Riverside alumni American geneticists Genentech people Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology History of biotechnology People from Modesto, California People from San Bernardino, California Scientists from California City of Hope National Medical Center