CRISPR Research Lab

GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) has launched a five-year, $67 million collaboration with the San Francisco and Berkeley campuses of the University of California to build a state-of-the-art laboratory that will use CRISPR technologies to explore how genes cause disease and to rapidly accelerate the discovery of new medicines.

Known as the Laboratory for Genomic Research (LGR), the partnership will be headed by Dr. Hal Barron, chief scientific officer and president, R&D, at GSK; UCSF’s Jonathan Weissman, PhD, professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology, who has pioneered new applications of CRISPR for biological research; and CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna, PhD, professor of biochemistry, biophysics and structural biology at UC Berkeley.

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