Historic Research Highlights
Some 22 Nobel prizes have been associated with Jackson Laboratory research, mouse models, educational programs or the genetic principles set out by founder Clarence Cook Little.
- George Snell won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in elucidating the immune system, work that paved the way to organ transplantation
- The first evidence that viruses can cause cancer
- The discovery of the existence and nature of stem cells;
- The first successful mammalian bone marrow transplantation to cure a blood disorder
- Shaw Prize-winning research that led to the discovery of leptin, a key factor in metabolism, weight maintenance and obesity.
Recent research has provided insight into cancer stem cells and treatments for leukemia; progress with type 1 diabetes and lupus; and a breakthrough in extending mammalian life span.
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