The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington has reached 200 employees. This is the latest milestone in the nonprofit institution’s strategic plan.
Jackson Lab, which opened in the fall of 2014, said it is on its way to reaching its 10-year goal of employing 300 biomedical researchers, technicians and support staff in its computing facilities and laboratories, according to President and CEO Edison Liu.
The 200th employee hired is research data analyst Nathan Lawlor, a native of Farmington. He recently obtained a Master’s of Science in microbial systems analysis at UConn, and last summer interned in the computational sciences department of JAX Genomic Medicine.
In recent weeks Jackson Lab researchers have published research on advancing techniques for modeling human diseases and new insights into how the human genome is organized in three dimensions.
The Jackson Laboratory is a Maine-based independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution and National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center. It employs over 1,700 staff, and its mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health.
The state contributed $291 million in loans and grants to the company’s bioscience efforts in Farmington, and has an agreement to share intellectual property royalties with Connecticut Innovations, which administers the state’s bioscience fund.
The lab’s 20-year capital and research budget is estimated to be $1.1 billion.
