Where do the funds come from to support the NMF?
The Neuroscience Mutagenesis Facility at The Jackson Laboratory is funded by a group of seven NIH institutes (The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, The National Institute of Drug Abuse, The National Institute of Mental Health, The National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, The National Institute of Aging, The National Eye Institute, and The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) as part of a cooperative agreement. Two other neurological mutant mouse facilities operate under this U01 – The Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium and the Northwestern Neurogenomics Project; the common web site of all three centers is located at http://neuromice.org. Activities of the three centers are overseen by the Neurosciences Steering Committee which consists of Robert Karp (NIH-NIAAA), Steve Brown (Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell, UK), Michael Cherry (Stanford University), Richard Thompson (UCLA) plus the three principal investigators of each fac
