The 38 principal investigators of the Lab’s ever-expanding brain trust are focusing their time, talents and technology on collectively building insights into the biomechanics of human health and disease in areas as diverse as cancer, obesity, diabetes, glaucoma and HIV-AIDS.

The Lab’s long and growing roster of researchers includes world-class scientists such as Dr. Shaoguang Li, whose passion for genetic research was sparked by the children he treated as a physician back home in China.

It also includes researchers whose childhood homes were just down the road, people such as geneticist Muriel Davisson, who grew up in Tremont and lives there still.

Her work on understanding the genetic components of Down syndrome and Li’s work on developing drugs that target leukemia are typical of the impact that The Jackson Laboratory research teams are having on understanding the microbiological underpinnings of human disease.

Individually and collectively, Davisson, Li and their growing cadre of colleagues blend their innate curiosity with mammalian genetics techniques and technologies developed since 1929 at The Jackson Laboratory as they continue their search today for the cures of tomorrow.