Jackson Laboratory

The Worthington-JAX Biomedical Fellows Scholarship aims to offer innovative, experiential biomedical research training opportunities for current Worthington Scholars and alumni.

Jackson Lab plans to renovate an existing 3,500-square-foot facility on the Bar Harbor campus, expand capacity and meet growing market demand for advanced research mice.

The recent wave of expansions demonstrates that Maine’s life sciences sector is not only growing, but putting down long-term roots.

The collaboration integrates JAX’s expertise in genetics, disease biology and stem cell research with GSK’s in neurodegeneration and drug discovery. The goal is to help close a gap between scientific discovery and the development of new medicines.

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The Bar Harbor lab is the first research institution in Maine to be awarded a grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H.

Jackson Lab built a child care center on its Bar Harbor campus and began operations in early 2024 with Down East Family YMCA as the operator.

The deal “marks a turning point for biomedical research,” combining genetics expertise with automation technologies, which could accelerate therapies for diseases like cancer.

“JAX and most other research institutions will be at best much smaller than they are today, and some won’t exist. You can’t recover from that,” said the head of Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor.

In Maine, National Institutes of Health grants and contracts support 1,468 jobs and $286 million in economic activity.