Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
The logo of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Established1890; 134 years ago (1890)
PresidentBruce Stillman
Staff1,200
Budget$150 million
Location
1 Bungtown Road
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Websitewww.cshl.edu
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Historic District
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is located in New York
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is located in the United States
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
LocationJct. of NY 25A and Bungtown Rd., Laurel Hollow, New York
Coordinates40°51′30″N 73°28′00″W / 40.85833°N 73.46667°W / 40.85833; -73.46667
Area110 acres (45 ha)
ArchitectMultiple
Architectural styleMultiple
NRHP reference No.94000198[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 30, 1994
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a private, non-profit institution with research programs focusing on cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, and quantitative biology.[2] It is located in Laurel Hollow on Long Island, New York.

It is one of 68 institutions supported by the Cancer Centers Program of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) and has been an NCI-designated Cancer Center since 1987.[3] The Laboratory is one of a handful of institutions that played a central role in the development of molecular genetics and molecular biology.[4]

It has been home to eight scientists who have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. CSHL is ranked among the leading basic research institutions in molecular biology and genetics, with Thomson Reuters ranking it first in the world.[5] CSHL was also ranked first in research output worldwide by Nature.[6] The Laboratory is led by Bruce Stillman, a biochemist and cancer researcher.

Since its inception in 1890, the institution's campus on the North Shore of Long Island has also been a center of biology education. Current CSHL educational programs serve professional scientists, doctoral students in biology, teachers of biology in the K–12 system, and students from the elementary grades through high school. In the past 10 years, CSHL conferences & courses have drawn over 81,000 scientists and students to the main campus.[7] For this reason, many scientists consider CSHL a "crossroads of biological science."[8] Since 2009 CSHL has partnered with the Suzhou Industrial Park in Suzhou, China to create Cold Spring Harbor Asia which annually draws some 3,000 scientists to its meetings and courses.[9] The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences, formerly the Watson School of Biological Sciences, was founded in 1999.[10]

In 2015, CSHL announced a strategic affiliation with the nearby Northwell Health to advance cancer therapeutics research, develop a new clinical cancer research unit at Northwell Health in Lake Success, NY, to support early-phase clinical studies of new cancer therapies, and recruit and train more clinician-scientists in oncology.[11]

CSHL hosts bioRxiv, a preprint repository for publications in the life sciences.

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | 2012 Annual Report". Archived from the original on March 14, 2014. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
  3. ^ "Cancer Centers Program - Cancer Centers". Archived from the original on February 23, 2014. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
  4. ^ Horace Freedland Judson, The Eighth Day of Creation: The Makers of the Revolution in Biology (Simon & Schuster, 1979), esp. pp. 65-69; also: 44-46; 53; 57-58; 62; 70; 82; 185; 232; 239; 247; 273; 321; 368; 392; 454; 458-59; 572-73.
  5. ^ See Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators, [1]. The ranking is based on average citation frequency of faculty research papers published between January 2002 and December 2012, including 96.94 citations for each CSHL paper on average.
  6. ^ "Top 10 academic institutions in 2018: normalized". Nature. June 19, 2019. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01924-x. S2CID 241263716.
  7. ^ WebServices. "CSHL Facts & Figures - About Us". Archived from the original on March 22, 2014. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
  8. ^ Examples include: Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., current director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health: [2]; Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner: [3]; Nobel laureate Eric Kandel, M.D., referring to the institutional setting of CSHL's graduate school: [4]; See also: R. Sanders Williams, "Sputnik, Slime Molds, and Botticelli in the Making of a Physician-Scientist," in David A. Schwartz, ed., Medicine, Science and Dreams: The Making of Physician-Scientists (Springer, 2010, p. 103.)
  9. ^ "CSH Asia Overview". www.csh-asia.org.
  10. ^ "CSHL trustees vote on future of graduate school". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. July 3, 2020. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  11. ^ Dagnia Zeidlickis. "CSHL Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and North Shore-LIJ announce strategic affiliation to accelerate benefits of cancer research to patients - News & Features". Archived from the original on October 31, 2015. Retrieved October 16, 2015.