Best Place To Work: Jackson Labs Makes List

Jackson Labs, at the heart of the government-backed Bioscience Connecticut initiative at UCONN in Farmington, is apparently a cool place to work.

The Scientist ranks the best place for scientists to work in its August issue:

The top 25 institutions are:

1.       J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA

2.       Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, WA

3.       Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO

4.       Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (CeMM), Vienna, Austria

5.       Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA

6.       La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, La Jolla, CA

7.       Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA

8.       St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

9.       Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

10.   Blood Systems Research Institute,  San Francisco, CA

11.   The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME

12.   Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

13.   Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA

14.   Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

15.   Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA

16.   University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

17.   University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

18.   Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research Basel, Switzerland

19.   Georgetown University, Washington, DC

20.   Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY

21.   Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK

22.   University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

23.   H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL

24.   University of Groningen, Netherlands

25.   The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK