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.
As the profitability of UBI grew, private interests and the controlling members of both the for-profit UBI, the non-profit W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center, Inc., and the non-profit W. Alton Jones Foundation, along with their associates, redirected the UBI mission away from its original objective of providing permanent support and endowment for the Cell Center in Lake Placid, New York.