BAR HARBOR (AP) – The Jackson Laboratory, which expects to add 400 jobs to its work force within five years, announced Tuesday that it has obtained new federal research grants totaling $24.5 million over the same period.
The new grants, from five different National Institutes of Health entities, fund research in bone health, glaucoma and aging, among other things.
Overall, federal grants represent $50 million a year for the nonprofit biomedical research institution, ranking the laboratory among the nation’s top independent research institutes for NIH funding, officials said.
Rick Woychik, laboratory director, said part of the credit goes to the state for taxpayer-supported investments that provided “the funds we need to build new laboratory space and attract new scientists and funding.”
Between 2001 and 2006, the state invested $35.9 million in The Jackson Laboratory through the Maine Biomedical Research Fund. “In that same period, the laboratory attracted more than $322 million in federal research grants,” he said.
Jackson Lab, which specializes in mouse genetics, currently has about 1,300 employees.
, having doubled its employee base over the past decade.
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