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Press ReleaseOctober 14, 2021JAX appoints first ever Chief Medical Officer, Jens Rueter
Jens Rueter, M.D. has been appointed the first ever chief medical officer of The Jackson Laboratory. Rueter is a practicing physician in Maine and has served as medical director of JAX’s Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative (MCGI) for the past five years. -
Research HighlightOctober 05, 2021Discovering how to prevent aging and cancer in the blood cell system
Jennifer Trowbridge of JAX seeks to thwart the mutations and inflammation that accumulate in aging bone marrow to maintain production of healthy blood cells and reduce blood cancer risk. -
Featured ArticleSeptember 09, 2021Programming CKB: bringing clinical expertise to the world
Dan Durkin, technical team lead on the Clinical Knowledgebase (CKB), gives a first hand explanation of this powerful tool (available to anyone) that allows clinicians and researchers to better interpret complex cancer genomic profiles. -
Press ReleaseSeptember 01, 2021JAX accelerating R&D for pediatric cancers
NCI Pediatric PIVOT program, run by JAX, aims to expedite approval of treatments for childhood cancers.
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Search MagazineOctober 06, 2021A lifelong friendship inspires support for JAX blood cancer research
A lifelong friendship inspires support for JAX blood cancer research. -
Research HighlightSeptember 30, 2021JAX research team examines how glioma cells handle stress
Gliomas, malignant brain tumors, are considered incurable by current science. What, then, makes them so adaptable and dangerous? A JAX research team featuring Kevin Johnson, Kevin Anderson, and Roel Verhaak use single-cell genetics to examine how gliomas handle stress so well. -
Search MagazineSeptember 08, 2021Researching why and how we age
The Nathan Shock Centers of Excellence is empowering innovative approaches to aging research. -
Blog PostSeptember 01, 2021Underrepresented, underserved and understudied
Donna is a 60-year-old Black woman with a personal history of breast cancer, diagnosed at age 49. Her oncologist recommended she consider genetic testing at the time. However, when she met with a genetic counselor she was not able to access testing.