Courtesy of MDI Biological Laboratory Courtesy of MDI Biological Laboratory MDI Biological Laboratory of Bar Harbor has won a $12 million federal grant. A Mount Desert Island laboratory announced Friday that it has been awarded a $12 million federal grant to aid in researching the aging process and the regrowth of human body parts. The National Institutes of Health Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant will support the work of several scientists at MDI Biological Laboratory’s Kathryn W.