Dr. Bruce Jackson was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Jackson received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from the University of Houston; his Master of Science Degree in Genetics from the University of California, Davis and his Doctorate in Biochemistry from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He did his post-doctoral training at Boston University School of Medicine and was appointed to the faculty there in 1993. Also in 1993, Dr. Jackson received an appointment as Head of the Biotechnology Programs at Massachusetts Bay Community College.

Since 1993 the Biotechnology Program under Dr. Jackson has become the preeminent undergraduate science program in the nation. The National Science Foundation Biotechnology Program uses the Biotechnology Program at Mass Bay as its model undergraduate science program. Through the Biotechnology program at Mass Bay Dr. Jackson created the first and only forensic DNA degree program in the world. The Barry M. Goldwater Congressional Scholarship is the highest science award in the United States. The Biotechnology Program at Mass Bay has produced 10 Goldwater scholars in the past 5 years, which exceeds the number produced by all community colleges combined nationally and, more than virtually all but a handful of elite 4-year colleges.

At Boston University Medical School, Dr. Jackson's research team investigates the regulation of genes that are linked to the onset of prostate cancer. He is also co-founder of the Prostate Cancer Alliance, a national team of African-American scientists that are searching for a cure for prostate cancer.

Dr. Jackson is one of this nation's forensic DNA experts and has collaborations in this field with the U.S. Army, the FBI, and other international forensic organizations. In 1999, Dr. Jackson embarked on a project to link African-American families to their ancestral tribes and families in West Africa using DNA analysis. This project has won worldwide acclaim and will be the subject of several television documentaries in the United States and Europe Dr. Jackson is a member of two Advisory Boards of the Director of the National Science Foundation, The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Committee, and The American Society for Cell Biology.

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