A $16.3-million grant from the NIH funds a major new research program at The Jackson Laboratory to increase the number and availability of mouse models for human neurological diseases such as epilepsy, addiction, and neurodegenerative disorders.
2000
The NIH awards a $14-million grant to The Jackson Laboratory to establish a center for mouse models of heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders.
2000
Genetics Resources Building opens in July.
2001
Tatyana Golovkina discovers that I/LnJ mice—first derived by L.C. Strong at Jackson in 1926—are impervious to mammary tumors caused by retrovirus infections.
2002
Rick Woychik is named director.
2002
A draft of the mouse genome is published in Nature by the publicly supported Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium, including Jackson scientists Carol Bult and Wayne Frankel.
2002
The laboratories of Jürgen Naggert and Patsy Nishinaannounce the first human gene discovered at The Jackson Laboratory. A mutation in the gene, ALMS1, causes Alström syndrome, a very rare condition but with implications for understanding common human conditions including obesity and diabetes.
2002
Susan Ackerman and colleagues pinpointed the molecular basis for why a particular strain of mice is a useful model for late-onset neurodegenerative disease, suggesting an emerging hypothesis for Alzheimer's disease.
2004
75th Anniversary celebrations include a scientific symposium: "The role of the mouse in biomedical research--past, present and future," featuring prominent researchers in cancer, retroviruses, MHC, stem cells, metabolism, genomics, and interdisciplinary science.
2006
East Research Building officially opens with ribbon cutting ceremony.
2006
Center for Genome Dynamics established to study systems genetics with $15.1 million grant from NIH.
2007
Award-winning scientists: Dr. David Serreze receives the Gerold & Kayla Grodsky Basic Research Scientist Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Dr. John Eppig receives the Pioneer in Reproduction Research Award from the Frontiers in Reproduction Research Program.
2007
Robert Braun, Ph.D., assumes role as Associate Director and Research Chair at the Laboratory.
