The idea of establishing the China national genetically
engineered mice resources bank was first introduced in
1998 by Dr. Yinian Ba, member of Chinese Science Academy,
and Dr. Yilong Liu. In 2001, the Dept of Science and Technology,
P. R. China formally announced the project and the Univer-
sities and the research institutions national wide started
to compete for the project. Among several very competitive
applications, the plan wrote by Nanjing University and
Yangzou University, led by Dr. Gao Xiang, was ranked in
the highest score, by the selective committee. Therefore,
in 2001, the Dept of Science and Technology, P. R. China,
award the project, Establishment of The National Genetically
Engineered Mice Resources Bank as one of the key projects
of "the tenth five-year plan", to Nanjing Uni-
versity and Yangzou University. The project is led by
Dr. Gao Xiang. In May 2002, the buildings for The National
Genetically Engineered Mice Re- sources Bank started to
construct. By June 2003, the construction was accomplished
and the mice started to move in the facilities. Thus,
after 100 years after The Jackson Laboratory was founded
(in 1902) in USA to collect the mice strains for life
science research, like German GSF,……, China has its own
facility to collect, store and provide mice strains for
the biomedical research community in China.
The National Genetically Engineered Mice Resources
Bank was located at West to Xufu Road, Pukou High-tech
zone, Nanjing, 210093. It has 700 square meters state-of-art
facilities for storing and breeding the gene- tically
modified mice created by Chinese life science research
community.
The task of The National Genetically Engineered Mice
Resources Bank is to collect and store the any genetically
modified mice strains created in China. It is also to
import scientifically important mice strains from aboard,
such as USA and Germany and provided mice strains nationwide.
The MARC is making her effort to enable The National
Genetically Engineered Mice Resources Bank one of the
recognized institutions world-widely.
The National Genetically Engineered Mice Resources
Bank now has ? strains. The details of the stain are
here.
The National Genetically Engineered Mice Resources
Bank is guided by a Board of Directors, chaired by ?,
and by a Board of Advisory Scientists composed of eminent
biologists. In addition, members of the MARC Board of
Associates serve as ambassadors for the Institute. They
support the Ins- titute's scientific mission through
personal philanthropy and by sharing their leadership
skills in science, business, finance, education, communi-
cation, and other fields.
In October 2002, mouse geneticist Dr. Xiang Gao served
as director of The National Genetically Engineered Mice
Resources Bank.
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