As profitability of UBI increased, private interests and the controlling overlapping members of the Boards of both the for-profit UBI, the non-profit W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center, Inc. and the non-profit W. Alton Jones Foundation and their associates diverted the UBI mission away from the goal of providing permanent support and endowment of the Cell Center in its Lake Placid, New York location in the Adirondack Mountains.
This led to a diversion of the UBI mission by private interests and controlling members of both the for-profit UBI and non-profit W. Alton Jones entities, including the Cell Science Center and Foundation, away from its primary objective of providing long-term support and funding for the Cell Center in Lake Placid.