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The Bar Harbor institution was awarded over $140 million in grant funds during 2021, a new annual record for the biomedical research institute. The lab also saw other milestones during the year, including the start of a new CEO.
The Jackson Laboratory, a Maine-based nonprofit biomedical research institution with a major hub in Farmington, said that it was awarded more than $140 million in funding in 2021 that covered about 115 awards. That’s up from $115 million in research awards in 2020 and $105 million in 2019, Jackson Lab said. The awards cover a broad range of focus areas including cancer, addiction, education and genetics research. Some of the major awards included:
Professor Ronald Evans and Assistant Professor Dannielle Engle have been granted a 2021 ASPIRE (Accelerating Scientific Platforms and Innovative Research) award to study the cellular and molecular drivers of pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancers with few effective treatment options.
Johns Hopkins astrophysicist, Alexander Szalay, Ph.D., and Kimmel Cancer Center pathologist Janis Taube, M.D., M.Sc., received a Life Sciences 2021 award for AstroPath at this year's Falling Walls Science Summit, an international event honoring research breakthroughs from across the globe.
Building on research supported by The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research and Cancer Research UK, the collaboration aims to address the problems of fragmented