Jackson Lab gets $10M to fight genetically complex diseases
The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor said it has received a nearly $10 million federal grant to launch a major initiative in collaboration with several institutions to fight life-threatening and genetically complex diseases.
The five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health will establish the Center for Precision Genomics at the Jackson Lab’s Bar Harbor location, the lab said this week. The initiative will involve geneticists and genetics technology experts, clinical experts, molecular and computational biologists from hospitals and universities across the country, including the University of California in San Francisco, Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio and Emory University in Georgia.
Edison Liu, Jackson Lab’s president and CEO, said the lab’s expertise in mammalian genetics and disease modeling and its work with human clinical samples at its Genomic Medicine facility in Connecticut will serve as the foundation for the new center’s work.
Wayne Frankel, a professor at Jackson Lab who is the principal investigator on the project, added: “In order to advance the paths to therapies for previously incurable diseases, we intend to embrace a full range of technologies from reliable yet cutting-edge technological platforms to ambitious high-risk, high-reward platforms that are required to get the job done.”
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