Lon Cardon is the founder of The Jackson Laboratory. Based in Bar Harbor, United States.
Internationally recognized human geneticist and demonstrated leader in academic, pharma and biotech research, Lon Cardon, Ph.D., FMedSci, joined The Jackson Laboratory as president and chief executive officer in November 2021. Previously, he was chief scientific officer and chief scientific strategy officer at BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., a rare disease biotechnology company. Before his role at BioMarin, from 2008 to 2017 Cardon was senior vice president and head of genetics, quantitative sciences and alternative discovery/development at GlaxoSmithKline plc. He conducted his Ph.D. research at the Institute for Behavior Genetics at the University of Colorado Boulder and received his postdoctoral training in the department of mathematics at Stanford University.
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