The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington said it will use a new $10 million federal grant to launch a new research center.
The five-year National Institutes of Health grant will help seed the Center for Precision Genomics at Jackson Laboratory, Jax said Tuesday.
Jax said it envisions the center will be a hub for geneticists, technology experts, biologists and others to collaborate on developing precision mouse models of disease.
“Ultimately, the Center will generate new disease modeling processes and pipelines, data resources, research results and models that will be swiftly shared through JAX’s proven dissemination pipelines to accelerate translation to medical benefit,” Jackson Laboratory President and CEO Dr. Edison Liu said in a statement.
The center will collaborate with researchers from seven universities and medical centers across the country, including UMass Medical School in Worcester, Mass. Other partners include Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Columbia University Medical Center, Emory University, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the University of California’s San Diego and San Francisco campuses.
