Jackson provided support for the first five years of operation. As well as providing funds for the first laboratory building, Roscoe B. Jackson, a one-time head of the Hudson Motor Car Company, for whom the institution is named. Initial funding for the laboratory campus came from Edsel Ford, the son of Henry Ford, and from Roscoe B. The campus was built on 13 acres of land donated by George Dorr. Jackson Memorial Laboratory with the purpose of discovering the causes of cancer and other diseases through research on mammals.
The Jackson Laboratory was founded by Clarence Cook Little, a former University of Maine and University of Michigan president, in 1929 in Bar Harbor, Maine under the name Roscoe B. Neurobehavioral disorders: autism, addiction, depression.Neurobiology: blindness, Alzheimer's, deafness, epilepsy, glaucoma, macular degeneration, neurodegenerative diseases.Metabolic diseases: atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity.
Immunology: HIV/AIDS, anemia, autoimmunity, cancer immunology, immune system disorders, lupus, tissue transplant rejection, vaccines. Development/reproductive biology: birth defects, Down syndrome, osteoporosis, fertility. Cancer areas of focus include: brain, leukemia, lung, lymphoma, prostate, breast cancer initiation and progression cancer prevention and therapies Cancer: The Jackson Laboratory Cancer Center (JAXCC) has a National Cancer Institute designated Cancer Center. Jackson Laboratory's research, represented by the activities of more than 60 laboratories, performs researches in six areas: The laboratory is also the world's source for more than 8,000 strains of genetically defined mice, home of the Mouse Genome Informatics database, and an international hub for scientific courses, conferences, training and education. The mission of The Jackson Laboratory is "to discover the genetic basis for preventing, treating and curing human diseases, and to enable research and education for the global biomedical community." The institution is a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center and has NIH Centers of Excellence in aging and systems genetics. It employs more than 3,000 employees in Bar Harbor, Maine Sacramento, California Farmington, Connecticut Shanghai, China and Yokohama, Japan. The Jackson Laboratory (often abbreviated as JAX) is an independent, non-profit biomedical research institution which was founded by Clarence Cook Little.
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