JAX centers combine robust funding, deep expertise and a collaborative mindset to accelerate discovery in complex disease and other research areas. By bringing together extensive resources and multiple perspectives, the centers support long-term, innovative research into cancer, aging, neurodegeneration, addiction, and more.
The JAX Center for Addiction Biology is an integrated research center designed to bring together an interdisciplinary community of researchers into the study of addiction, making extensive use of the laboratory mouse and cross-cutting…
Read moreThe JAX Center for Aging Research's long-term goal is to build a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms at work in lifespan and health span. We focus our diverse expertise in biology and genomics on the problems and disorders…
Read moreTo understand disease mechanisms and ultimately develop effective therapies for AD, it is essential we apply state-of-the-art approaches to generate the next generation of more predictive animal models and make these models widely available…
Read moreThe Jackson Laboratory Cancer Center (JAXCC) is a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center complemented by institutional education, resource and service initiatives that support cancer research world-wide. The JAXCC comprises approximately 50 members with multidisciplinary…
Read moreThe Jackson Laboratory Center for Precision Genetics (JCPG) seeks to create and validate new, precise animal models of incurable and genetically complex human diseases. The JCPG was initiated in 2015 as one of three NIH-funded Pilot Centers…
Read more350 million people are affected by rare and orphan disease. The Rare and Orphan Translational Center at JAX conducts research to better treat these diseases.
Read moreThe center enables scientists to harness the full power of genomic technologies and computational strategies and use them to analyze the human genome to discover new and better ways of…
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