Jackson Lab gets South Korean grant
The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor has won a $7.5 million grant from the South Korean government to study the genomic signatures of various cancer samples, creating a database that could help target treatments to specific cancer types.
The Bar Harbor-based lab’s new research facility in Farmington, Conn., will lead the new collaboration that will involve collecting tumors from cancer patients and using mice from the laboratory’s Avatar project to test various cancer treatments.
Charles Lee, director of The Jackson Laboratory Center for Genomic Medicine in Connecticut and a visiting professor at Seoul National University in South Korea, said in a press release that the study could allow classification of thousands of cancers into similar clusters to target treatment methods.
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