The Jackson Laboratory, Dr Edison Liu & COVID?

[JJ_BPK]

A friend posted this avert for The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) on the XXXX video site.

I'm curious as to why JAX nor Dr Edison Liu has not popped in any of the COVID discussions?

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President and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory, Edison Liu, M.D., led the scientific response in Singapore during the 2003 SARS crisis.

Here Dr. Liu discusses the science of the coronavirus (COVID-19), how to slow the spread of the virus, and what the scientific community is doing to address the public health crisis. He also answers questions submitted during the presentation.

Nadia Rosenthal, Ph.D., JAX’s scientific director in Bar Harbor, Maine, moderates the discussion and online Q&A.

This event was presented by The Jackson Laboratory and Ellsworth Public Library.

I google-foo'd and found their site. Looks like this is another PRC funded shill?

The Jackson Laboratory collaborates with researchers in China to further understand and harness the genetic and biological complexity of disease to improve human health

Shanghai, Chengdu, and Beijing PRC and Farmington, Conn, U.S.A. — The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), a U.S.-based nonprofit biomedical research institution, announced new milestones in China that will further empower the Chinese biomedical research community to advance human health.

“As a pioneer in genetics and mouse model research, JAX has a century-long history of supporting researchers around the world with precisely-applied mouse models of human disease and powerful preclinical research solutions,” said Auro Nair, executive vice president of The Jackson Laboratory and president, JAX® Mice, Clinical and Research Services. “Our work in China is integral to our mission to improve human health globally. To do so, not only is it imperative to provide access to models that better represent the genetic and biological complexity of the human condition, but we are also dedicated to delivering educational forums that further the research community’s understanding of human genomics and the use of model systems to uncover cures for disease.”

Our ultimate goal is to help patients through science anywhere in the world.

• Harnessing genetic and biological complexity
• Providing JAX educational forums for Chinese researchers
• Advancing the understanding of the genomic basis of human diseases

About The Jackson Laboratory

The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution with more than 2,200 employees. Headquartered in Bar Harbor, Maine, it has a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center, a genomic medicine institute in Farmington, Conn., and facilities in Ellsworth, Maine, Sacramento, Calif., and Shanghai, China. Its mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health.

Founded in 1929, JAX applies its nine decades of expertise in genetics to increase understanding of human disease, advancing treatments and cures for cancer, neurological and immune disorders, diabetes, aging and heart disease. It models and interprets genomic complexity, integrates basic research with clinical application, educates current and future scientists, and empowers the global biomedical community by providing critical data, tools and services. JAX is the world's source for more than 11,000 strains of genetically defined mice, is home of the Mouse Genome Informatics and Mouse Phenome databases, and is a hub for scientific courses, conferences, training and education.


https://www.jax.org/news-and-insight...n-announcement

Jackson Laboratory
Edison Liu Leaves Singapore to Head Jackson Lab
By Eliot MarshallAug. 26, 2011 , 5:29 PM

Cancer researcher Edison Liu, 59, will be the new president of the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, the lab announced today. Liu will take charge in January 2012, succeeding Rick Woychik, who stepped down earlier this year to become deputy director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina.

Liu comes to Jackson after 11 years at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), where he has been executive director since its founding. Liu says one of his big achievements in Singapore was to build an institute from scratch with home-grown talent rather than relying heavily on "imports." Liu's successor as director of GIS will be one of those home-grown stars—Huck Hui Ng, a GIS senior research group leader, adjunct professor at the National University of Singapore among other teaching posts, and an expert in stem cell biology.

Liu, who was born in Hong Kong in 1952, studied chemistry and psychology as an undergraduate at Stanford University, then went on to get an M.D. degree from Stanford in 1978. In the 1980s, Liu was a fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, including as a postdoc under J. Michael Bishop, who with Harold Varmus shared a 1989 Nobel Prize. Liu then moved to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, as a professor of medicine. He was running the 1200-person clinical sciences division of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, when GIS recruited him away in 2001. He has done important research on tyrosine kinase receptors, most famously on HER2, which affects how tumors respond to chemotherapy in breast cancer patients.

Why did Liu decide to leave Singapore to run an animal research and genetics center on a distant island in Maine? Liu told ScienceInsider that he had always intended to depart from GIS after a decade. Administrators tend to go "sour" and stale after many years in command, Liu says, and he promised himself that he would move on before that happened to him.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011...ad-jackson-lab

[Trapper John]

Originally Posted by JJ_BPK

A friend posted this avert for The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) on the XXXX video site.

I'm curious as to why JAX nor Dr Edison Liu has not popped in any of the COVID discussions?




I google-foo'd and found their site. Looks like this is another PRC funded shill?

When discussing COVID-19 Jackson Laboratories (JAX) is only remotely relevant as a source of mice for research along with-
Charles River Laboratories,
Harlan Sprague Dawley, Inc., and
Taconic Farms, Inc.

Their only connection to COVID-19 is as a source for hACE2 transgenic mice. These mice represent a good model for SARSCov-2 induced ARDS. Other than that why would JAX come up in a COVID19 discussion?

BTW the transgenic humanized hACE2 mouse was developed in the Baric lab at UNC and is licensed to JAX for breeding and commercial sale.

JJ, I wouldn't make too much of the PRC position in JAX. They don't represent a significant source for biomedical intellectual property IMHO.

[JJ_BPK]

Originally Posted by Trapper John

JJ, I wouldn't make too much of the PRC position in JAX. They don't represent a significant source for biomedical intellectual property IMHO.

Thanks, TJ