Revealing the complex causes of disease

The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) will build a new nonprofit research institute in Connecticut with support from the state’s Bioscience Connecticut initiative. The new institute, a 501 (c) (3) charitable organization, will draw upon The Jackson Laboratory’s eight decades of research and the medical expertise of Connecticut’s universities and hospitals. JAX Genomic Medicine will discover the complex causes of disease, develop diagnostics and therapeutics, and build Connecticut’s bioscience industry. 

JAX Genomic Medicine will be built on a 17-acre site on the University of Connecticut Health Center campus in Farmington. Initial operations will begin in 2012 using leased space while a 173,000-square-foot permanent facility is designed and built. Construction will begin in 2013, and the new facility will open in 2014. It will house 300 biomedical researchers, technicians and support staff in state-of-the-art computing facilities and laboratories. 

The JAX Genomic Medicine facility is an expansion, not a relocation, of The Jackson Laboratory. JAX will continue to grow its basic research campus in Bar Harbor, Maine, while the new facility in Connecticut focuses on medical applications of genomics with academic and clinical research partners from Connecticut and around the world.