Annual Report

As Fred Hutch approaches its 50th anniversary, the steps we have taken in recent years to reshape our organization and unite innovative research with compassionate care are allowing us to gain ground on our goal to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease.

Our clinical, research and administrative teams spent 2023 growing and aligning our operations to accelerate scientific advances into patient treatment options. 

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center was created in April 2022 with the aim of bringing scientific advances to patients faster and deepening longstanding ties with UW Medicine. Over the past year, we have been working to tighten the integration between scientific endeavors and clinical care, and streamline our structure.

When we join together, we can achieve what others have only dreamed of. An immunologist working with a data scientist, a patient with a clinical trialist, a donor with a cancer biologist — these partnerships make innovation possible across scientific divisions, across the world, across boundaries that stop others in their tracks.

For Fred Hutch, the COVID‑19 pandemic created hurdles to cancer and other research but also an opportunity for the virology expertise developed over decades of work on bone marrow transplants and HIV cures to help stop a global crisis.