Meet our scientists
Scientists at The Jackson Laboratory are developing new genetic and genomic research capabilities to delve into the root causes of cancer.
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Scientists from prestigious universities and institutions throughout the world choose to practice genetics research at The Jackson Laboratory. We’d like to introduce you to some of these dynamic people and their work.
Carol Bult
If the term “Renaissance Woman” is ever included in a dictionary, the entry could be illustrated with a photo of Carol Bult: scientist, athlete, musician and first responder with the Mount Desert Island Search and Rescue Team.
Greg Cox
Greg Cox has spent almost as many years fussing over the same 1965 Ford Mustang he bought as a teenager in California as he has now spent investigating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an always-fatal condition associated with aggressive death of motor neurons, the nerve cells that control muscle movement.
Chengkai Dai
Chengkai Dai was drawn away from clinical medicine in China to basic biomedical research at The Jackson Laboratory by innate curiousity about the mechanisms that underlie human health and disease.
Muriel Davisson
Muriel Davisson has committed the last 40 years at The Jackson Laboratory to finding spontaneous genetic mutations and to mapping and characterizing them. As a native of Maine’s Mount Desert Island, she says she likes to escape the demands of her research by taking to the woods with a chainsaw.
Kevin Mills
Kevin Mills and his laboratory team are immersed in research that could steer future strategies for treating cancer and other diseases, work that is revealing new details about DNA breakdown and repair mechanisms.