Retired Jackson scientist funds two new endowments
| Date: August 17, 2009 |
Jackson Laboratory Professor Emeritus Douglas Coleman, Ph.D., winner of the 2009 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine, has established two $100,000 endowments with his Prize earnings to support research and education at the Laboratory.
The Douglas Coleman Research Fund will support investigators, with preference given to early-career scientists at The Jackson Laboratory who are studying obesity and diabetes, the fields in which Dr. Coleman is recognized as a pioneer.
The Beverly Coleman Memorial Fund, named in honor of Dr. Coleman's late wife, will fund young students and educational programs at the Laboratory.
The new endowments were announced at the Laboratory's 80th Annual Meeting on August 14.
The Jackson Laboratory is a nonprofit biomedical research institution based in Bar Harbor, Maine. Its mission is to discover the genetic basis for preventing, treating and curing human diseases, and to enable research and education for the global biomedical community.
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