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Kenneth Paigen, a geneticist who served as director of the Jackson Laboratory from 1989–2003, died on Saturday (February 15), the lab announced. He was 92 years old and conducted research until just a few months ago.
“For 30 years, the name Ken Paigen was synonymous with the @jacksonlab,” writes Jackson Laboratory professor Steve Munger on Twitter. “He was a constant source of inspiration, and I was lucky to call him a mentor and friend.”
Paigen was born in 1927 in the Bronx, according to a 2013 profile in the Jackson Laboratory magazine. He attended the Bronx High School of Science, followed by Johns Hopkins University. His father, a dentist, wanted Paigen to become a doctor, but it was not to be. “When I started college I didn’t know there was such a thing as a Ph.D.,” he says in the article. “In my senior year we ...
