The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, is an nonprofit, independent biomedical research institution dedicated to the elimination of cancer and related disease as causes of human death and suffering through prevention research, and treatment.
The Cancer Center implement research of the highest standards to improve prevention and treatment of this devastating disease.
Founding members of the Fred Hutchinson Center are credited with pioneering bone-marrow transplantation as a successful treatment for some blood diseases, like leukemia, etc. Thousands of patients worldwide, was healed by this research. This research, also has boosted survival rates for some forms of leukemia from 0% to 85%.
In five scientific divisions the Hutchinson Cancer research institute today has 200 research groups and does not treat patients on site. These divisions are the Clinical Research Division, the Basic Sciences Division (formed in 1981), the Human Biology Division (formed in 1998), the Public Health Sciences (formed in 1983), and the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division (formed in 2010).
World-renowned researchers working at the Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, received three Nobel Prizes and many other important awards. Nobel Prize recipients are E. Donnall Thomas, M.D., Lee Hartwell, Ph.D., and Linda Buck, Ph.D.
Today more than 2,700 faculty and staff members are working in the Cancer Center and try to eliminate HIV, cancer and other related diseases.
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is established in 1975, in Seattle and is named after Fred Hutchinson, who had been a baseball hero and he was play for the Detroit Tigers and Seattle Rainiers.
