About Janelia Farm

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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 yieldedseveral 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 pursuelong-term projects of high significance.