The Jackson Laboratory Cancer Center
The Jackson Laboratory's NCI-designated Cancer Center has one research program, Modeling Cancer: Stem Cells to Therapy. The program's 58 highly interactive members take diverse genetic approaches using the mouse to investigate biological mechanisms relevant to cancer in humans, particularly those mechanisms involved in susceptibility, initiation, and early-stage lesions.
The mouse is the best experimental mammalian system for examining cancer. Research at the Cancer Center utilizes mouse model systems to investigate individual genes that participate in cancer initiation as well as to determine what influences individual cancer susceptibility at a genome-wide level.
