Jackson Lab pitches NYC center
The Jackson Laboratory has partnered with six other institutions to propose a bioresearch campus in New York City.
The Bar Harbor-based nonprofit and its partners have submitted a proposal for the New York Genome Center to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, according to the Bar Harbor Times. The center would focus on bioinformatics, or the study of biological processes using data analysis and algorithms, including DNA sequencing projects and technology development. Jackson Lab Chairman of Research Bob Braun said in a press release that the lab would create mouse models of human disease genes for analysis. The other institutions involved in the proposal are the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University and Rockefeller University, all in New York. The proposal was one of 18 submitted to Bloomberg's office, which will select one proposal by the end of the year.
Last month, Jackson Lab scrapped its plans to build a biomedical facility in Florida. A spokeswoman for the lab told the paper the New York project is not a replacement for the Florida project, but rather a "major collaboration."
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