About The Jackson Laboratory
From JAX: The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) is making a new future of human health and personalized medicine possible — using an individual’s unique genomic makeup to predict, treat and even prevent disease. Founded in 1929, JAX is an independent, 501(c)3 nonprofit biomedical research institution that seeks to decipher the biological and genomic causes of human disease — by using the mouse as our model. Our research breakthroughs have helped form the foundation of modern medicine. Organ and bone marrow transplants, stem cell therapies, and in vitro fertilization all have a foundation in JAX research. Today, JAX is integrating mouse genetics and human genomics to decipher the genetic and molecular causes of human health and disease. JAX uniquely empowers the efforts of the global biomedical research community. We develop and share our research, innovative tools and solutions, ever‑expanding data resources, more than 11,500 specialized mouse models and services, and a suite of comprehensive educational programs to accelerate basic scientific research and drug discovery across the globe.
KIF1A Research Network member Cathleen Lutz, PhD, MBA, is Director of the Mouse Repository and the Rare and Orphan Disease Center at The Jackson Laboratory. KIF1A.ORG has worked closely with Dr. Lutz and her team since our organization was established in 2017.
