Janelia Research Campus
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| Established | September 6, 2006 |
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| Research type | Unclassified |
| Budget | $300 million |
| Director | Gerald M. Rubin |
| Staff | 424 |
| Location | Ashburn, Virginia |
| Campus | 689 acres (2.79 km2) |
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
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| Website | www |
Janelia Research Campus is a research campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that opened in October 2006, after ground was broken in 2000. The campus is located in Loudoun County, Virginia, near the town of Ashburn. It is known for its scientific research and modern architecture. The Executive Director of the laboratory is the biologist Gerald M. Rubin, who is also a vice-president of HHMI.
The campus was known as "Janelia Farm Research Campus" until the name changed to "Janelia Research Campus" in 2014.
For many years, the main way HHMI conducted research was through supporting investigators who worked at their home institution. This is still the majority of HHMI research, with (as of 2011) more than 330 investigators at 70 institutions. However, there are interdisciplinary problems that are difficult to address in existing research settings, and Janelia was built to address one of these problems,neurobiology. As of November 2011, the facility has 424 employees and room for 150 more. The campus focuses on interdisciplinary research in this area, specifically addressing:
In addition to and in cooperation with the individual investigators, there are four large scale and two small scale interdisciplinary projects at Janelia:
Janelia was designed to emulate the unconstrained and collaborative environments at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Cambridge's Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Researchers are on six-year contracts and fully internally funded, independent of traditional research grant funding.
Gerald M. Rubin is the first executive director of Janelia, and saw it from concept through construction to operation. The other 50 research lab heads are Misha Ahrens, Bruce Baker, Eric Betzig, Davi Bock, Kristin Branson, Gwyneth Card, Albert Cardona, Barry Dickson, Shaul Druckmann, Joshua Dudman, Jeremy Freeman, Tamir Gonen, Nikolaus Grigorieff, Adam Hantman, Tim Harris, Ulrike Heberlein, Harald Hess, Stephen Huston, Vivek Jayaraman, Na Ji, Alla Karpova, Krystyna Keleman, Philipp Keller, Minoru Koyama, Luke Lavis, Albert Lee, Tzumin Lee, Anthony Leonardo, Zhe Liu, Loren Looger, Jeffrey Magee, Eva Pastalkova, Anastasios Pavlopoulos, Michael Reiser, Lynn Riddiford, Sandro Romani, Stephan Saalfeld, Eric Schreiter, Louis Scheffer, Robert Singer, Nelson Spruston, David Stern, Scott Sternson, Karel Svoboda, Michael Tadross, Robert Tjian, James Truman, Srinivas Turaga, Carl Wu, and Marta Zlatic.
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