JAX Covid-19 Biorepository

The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) is committed to helping address the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as rapidly as possible. The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, located in Farmington, Connecticut, is partnering with hospitals and health care facilities in Connecticut and Maine with additional coronavirus testing capacity for frontline workers and patients.

The Jackson Laboratory is also establishing a COVID-19 Biorepository to store left over clinical test samples from the JAX CLIA Laboratory for research use and to collect questionnaires from participants whose test results were positive or negative for COVID-19. This will enable JAX scientists and their collaborators at other institutions to study the materials stored in the biorepository to better understand and find new ways to detect, treat, and/or prevent COVID-19. It is our hope that some of these studies may lead to new scientific discoveries, such as vaccines or tests for the disease, that may benefit people in the future.