On May 4, 1929, Clarence Cook Little founded The Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, with help from Detroit industrialists who had previously recruited him to the University of Michigan; Eight employees and $50,000, ‘For research in cancer and the effects of radiation.’ Land donated by George B. Dorr, family friend.

The Laboratory, named posthumously for Jackson, was dedicated to the study of mammalian genetics and cancer.