Ahead lies the campus Clarence Cook Little founded in 1929, an independent, non-profit institution for biomedical research. Right here the Bar Harbor campus is one of two research campuses, the Jackson Laboratory for Mammalian Genetics in Bar Harbor and the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, Connecticut. You’re on ground that belongs to an organization that employs over 3,000 people across Bar Harbor, Sacramento, Farmington, Shanghai and Yokohama.
JAX is a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center and hosts NIH Centers of Excellence in aging and systems genetics. Its stated mission is "to discover the genetic basis for preventing, treating and curing human diseases, and to enable research and education for the global biomedical community. Practically, that mission reaches around the world: the laboratory provides more than 13,000 strains of mouse models to more than 2,400 organizations in 68 countries and is home to the Mouse Genome Informatics database.
It’s also an international hub for scientific courses, conferences, training and education. From this campus, strains travel to more than 2,400 organizations in 68 countries, one small piece of the buildings and grounds before you.