A $1.5 million gift will be used to create an endowed chair at Farmington bioscience researcher The Jackson Laboratory.
Weslie Janeway, a longtime member and current vice chair of the institution’s board of trustees, made the donation to support the creation of the Janeway Distinguished Chair. Previously Janeway had established the Pyewacket Fund to provide support for postdoctoral fellows working in the labs of early career faculty.
Jackson Laboratory president and CEO Edison Liu recently announced the appointment of professor Robert E. Braun to the Janeway Distinguished Chair. He said in a statement Braun is one of the nation’s leading reproductive biologists, studying germline stem cells and how they develop into eggs and sperm.
Janeway’s gift brings the total number of endowed chairs at the Jackson Laboratory to six. In addition to providing an important source of funding for research, named, endowed chairs enable Jackson Laboratory to attract, retain and support scientists.
