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Tab 1

	Year	Milestone
	2000	Genetics Resources building opens.
	2000	A $16.3-million grant from the NIH funds a major new research program at The Jackson Laboratory to increase the number and availability of mouse models for human neurological diseases such as epilepsy, addiction, and neurodegenerative disorders.
	2000	The NIH awards a $14-million grant to The Jackson Laboratory to establish a center for mouse models of heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders.
	2002	Richard Woychik, Ph.D., is named director.
	2004	75th Anniversary celebrations include a scientific symposium: "The role of the mouse in biomedical research--past, present and future," featuring prominent researchers in cancer, retroviruses, MHC, stem cells, metabolism, genomics, and interdisciplinary science.
	2006	Center for Genome Dynamics established to study systems genetics with $15.1 million grant from NIH.
	2006	East Research Building opens with a ribbon cutting ceremony attended by U.S. senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, U.S. Representative Tom Allen, and Maine Governor John Baldacci.
	2007	Robert Braun, Ph.D., assumes role as Associate Director and Research Chair at the Laboratory.

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Tab 2

	Year	Milestone
	1960	The Laboratory helps conduct the first Medical Genetics Short Course, organized by Victor McKusick & John Fuller.
	1963	The official name of the institution changes to The Jackson Laboratory on September 18.
	1968	Annual research grant total reaches $2 million.
	1974	Mouse Genetics Laboratory is dedicated and named for Earl Green on his retirement. Doug Coleman is appointed interim director.
	1976	Richmond Prehn is appointed the third director of what is now the world's largest center of mammalian genetics research: 450 employees, 700,000 mice, $9 million budget.
	1979	The Frozen Embryo Repository is established, directed by Dr. Larry Mobraaten (today known as the Cryopreservation Resource).
	1980	George D. Snell, Senior Staff Scientist Emeritus, accepts the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology.
	1980	Biomedical Research and Animal Research Laboratories completed (Snell wing).
	1981	Barbara Hugus Sanford named director.
	1983	National Cancer Institute awards CORE grant, making The Jackson Laboratory the only mammalian laboratory designated as a Cancer Center.
	1989	On May 10, a fire destroys the Morrell Park mouse production facility; half a million mice are lost. Kenneth Paigen, whose appointment as the next director was to begin in October, is visiting the Lab that day and immediately takes over as director.
	1992	New Morrell Park opens.
	1993	North Research Building completed.
	1999	The 40^th anniversary of the Short Course on Medical and Experimental Mammalian Genetics closes with a major genetics symposium.

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Tab 3

	Year	Milestone
	1923	Clarence Cook (C.C.) Little, president of the University of Maine, holds the first summer laboratory session the Bar Harbor area with six students. The camping trip is for a field study project in natural history.
	1929	C.C. Little ends his term as president of the University of Michigan and founds the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor. Support came from Detroit industrialists such as Edsel Ford and Jackson, president of the Hudson Motorcar Company, with land donated by family friend George B. Dorr.
	1930	The staff consists of Clarence Cook Little, Elizabeth Fekete, Joseph Murray, Arthur Cloudman, Leonell Strong, Charles Green and John Bittner.
	1931	The Jackson Laboratory hosts its first summer students, including Caroline Silence.
	1933	The first Jackson mice are sold to researchers at other institutions.
	1941	The first edition of Biology of the Laboratory Mouse—the first book devoted to mouse biology and genetics—is published.
	1947	A fire destroys most of the Jackson Memorial Laboratory and its mice. Researchers rally to rebuild stocks; donations and mice come in from around the world.
	1948	Jackson Laboratory newly rebuilt from donations and mice from around the world.
	1951	Morris / Hawkes estate donates Highseas.
	1956	C. C. Little retires; Dr. Earl Green appointed as new director.
	1958	Acquisition of Morrell Park from Louise Drexel Morrell. Built in 1898 as Robin Hood Park, the land was used for carriage, harness, and flat horse racing; renamed in 1919 in memory of Morrell’s husband.

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