Jackson Aging Center
With funding from The Ellison Medical Foundation, and The National Institute on Aging, The Jackson Laboratory has established a Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging.
The Major goal of the Jackson Aging Center is to find the genes and molecular pathways that regulate aging and the susceptibility to age-related disorders.
As part of our program to develop a powerful genetic and information research tool for aging related diseases, and to further enhance the utility of the mouse as a model organism for understanding human aging, we will characterize many inbred strains of mice for maximum lifespan, and study the pathologies and hormones hypothesized to be related to the basic mechanism of aging. All data will be placed in the publicly available Mouse Phenome Database as a resource for the scientific community of aging researchers. There will also be data going into The Mouse Tumor Biology Database.
