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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 (6:19)

  Watch the Gala tribute video for David Baltimore (4:45)

  Watch the Gala tribute video for Tony Evnin (4:45)

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Thank you to all of our supporters

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Lifetime achievement Award Recipients

"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."
~David Baltimore, Ph.D.

More about Dr. Baltimore

 
"Working with new life sciences companies over the last three decades has resulted in the creation of a number of substantial enterprises and, equally important, the development of significant new medicines, medical devices, and diagnostics that have improved human health.
~ Anthony B. Evnin, Ph.D.

More about Dr. Evnin