The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a private, non-profit institution with research programs focusing on cancer, neurobiology, plant genetics, genomics and bioinformatics. The Laboratory has a broad educational mission, including the recently established Watson School of Biological Sciences (founded in 1998). It currently employs over 400 scientists. Over its history eight Nobel laureates have worked at the laboratory.
CSHL is one of sixty-three institutions supported by the Cancer Centers Program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and has been a NCI-designated cancer center since 1987.
The lab is located in the village of Laurel Hollow, New York, on the shores of Cold Spring Harbor.
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