National Gala Lifetime Achievement Awards
More than 500 friends and supporters of The Jackson Laboratory enjoyed a star-studded evening at the Pierre Hotel in New York as the Laboratory presented Lifetime Achievement Awards to Nobel Prize-winning scientist David Baltimore and venture capitalist Anthony B. Evnin.
The National Gala, co-chaired by David Shaw and Glenn Close with a musical performance by James Taylor, raised funds to support young investigators at the Laboratory.
Watch the Gala video about the Laboratory Watch the Gala tribute video for David Baltimore Watch the Gala tribute video for Tony Evnin
"The excitement of science is in doing, not in books. The summer I spent at The Jackson Laboratory as a teenager was the decisive factor in my choosing biology as a major in college."
