Then place it in the FedEx mailer provided and send it off to the freezers. If you are having surgery we would gratefully accept any donation of tissue. Contact us for details. Research Grant Awarded to Richard Smith, MD, of The Jackson Lab PXE International, Inc. awarded its first research grant to The Jackson Lab . The lab has a tremendous number of strains of mice, and so is a good place to examine mice for these eye changes.
Mice are often a good model for humans since they share so many corresponding genes.
They are part of a large consortium of labs around the world and are coordinating, with PXE International, this research. If you have siblings with PXE, or other members of your family, please contact us . We need your help. As this project progresses, updates will be posted here. Thanks to the many individuals who have donated thus far.