The Jackson Laboratory

1960s

Jackson's Elizabeth Russell pioneers the use of bone marrow transplantation to cure a blood disorder in a mouse.

1960

First Medical Genetics Short Course, organized by Victor McKusick & John Fuller.

1963

Institution's name change to The Jackson Laboratory on Sept. 18.

1966

The db (diabetes) mouse is discovered at the Laboratory by Douglas Coleman and Katharine Hummel.

1966

Douglas Coleman initiates a series of landmark experiments, postulating in 1973 that the ob mouse has a genetic defect in its "satiety factor" and that the db mouse has a genetic defect in its "satiety center." His theories led to the successful cloning of the genes behind the ob and db defects by researchers at Rockefeller University in 1995.

1968

Paul Scott and John Fuller's dog behavior program at Hamilton Station ends.

1968

Annual research grants reach $2 million.