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Opened in 2006, HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus is a pioneering research center in Ashburn, Va., where scientists pursue biology's most challenging problems in a uniquely innovative and collaborative atmosphere.
  • DIVERSITY

    Small, cross-disciplinary teams bring chemists, physicists, computational scientists, and engineers into close collaboration with biologists.
  • INNOVATION

    Janelia collaborations have yielded several new technologies in optical imaging and genetic sequencing, and in using software to assemble sophisticated 3D models of neural circuitry.
  • FREEDOM TO COLLABORATE

    Scientists at Janelia Farm have the freedom and resources to pursue long-term projects of high significance.
Lab

Janelia Farm Gives Scientists a Fresh Start in the Lab

David Stern became a scientist because he enjoyed working in the laboratory. As the evolutionary biologist was rising through the academic ranks at Princeton University, he realized he was spending less time on the thing he loved best – doing his own experiments in the lab.
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